AN INSCRIBED DUAN INKSTONE

细节
AN INSCRIBED DUAN INKSTONE
QIANLONG

The top well carved resembling a qin with archaistic dragons framing the palette supporting two bats, the reverse with another eleven bats, their bodies highlighted with the stone's natural 'eyes', with a four-line incised poem signed Wanbai Shanren (small chips to edges)--10 3/8in. (26.5cm.) long

拍品专文

The poem may be translated:
The river flows and makes its sound,
Its cut-off banks a thousand feet high;
This 'Assembled Hundred Good Fortunes' inkstone
I will hand down to my sons and grandsons