AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED THREE-PART RUYI-SHAPED CINNABAR INKSTICK
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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED THREE-PART RUYI-SHAPED CINNABAR INKSTICK

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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED THREE-PART RUYI-SHAPED CINNABAR INKSTICK
KANGXI YICHOU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1685 AND OF THE PERIOD

Moulded into three sections forming a ruyi, fitted together to form a scallop-rimmed terminal with a pair of dragons to either side of the central gilt characters, Yuci, 'bestowed' by the Emperor, emerging from a shaft with a phoenix standing on ornamental rockwork beside peonies, the octagonal mid-section carved with a spotted deer below a monkey clinging from the branches of a tree, above a full-faced ascending dragon, the reverse side of the shaft with inscriptions above a landscape scene at the terminal, the sides variously decorated with 'precious objects', Buddhist lions playing with brocade balls, and ruyi clouds
20 in. (51 cm.) long

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The long inscriptions on the reverse reads: Songyuandu Huyuanxiang Taishou, an official title, and 'Kangxi (period) in the yichou year, moulded in the Xin'an Hall under supervision, according to the Yishui method'.

A similar ruyi form of black ink bearing the same cyclical date was sold in these Rooms, 22 March 1993, lot 537; and a related cinnabar inkcake moulded in imitation of an inkstone, dated to 1770, was sold in these Rooms, 30 April 2001, lot 529.

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