DATED QIANLONG CYCLICAL GENGWU YEAR, CORRESPONDNG TO 1750 AND OF THE PERIOD, SIGNED WANG CHAOLIN

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AN INSCRIBED RECTANGULAR DUAN STONE ‘PRUNUS’ WASHER
DATED QIANLONG CYCLICAL GENGWU YEAR, CORRESPONDNG TO 1750 AND OF THE PERIOD, SIGNED WANG CHAOLIN
The washer is of rectangular form with indented corners standing on four bracket feet. The interior surface is smoothly polished while the exterior is incised with boughs of plum blossoms on the long sides with four verse inscriptions and seals around the sides. The inscription on the front is dated to 1750 with a seal reading Jinren. The back side has a fourteen-character inscription followed by the signature Chaolin zuo (made by Chaolin) and a seal. The two narrow sides also with inscriptions: one is an excerpt from Su Shi’s Qian Chibifu (First Ode on the Red Cliffs) and the signature Wang Chaolin shu (written by Wang Chaolin); the other side is inscribed with twenty-four characters in seal script with the text in regular script describing the origin of the duan stone. The underside is incised with two seals, Jingren and Wang shi in seal script.
5 ¾ in. (14.7 cm.) long

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Wang Chaolin (1686-1759), having Jinren as a courtesy name and Chaolin, Xidong waishi as his pseudonyms, was a painter and a calligrapher from the Qing dynasty. Wang was a native of Anhui but mostly resided and was active in Yangzhou. He was noted for his painting of prunus and later became one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.

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