DATED KANGXI CYCLICAL GUISI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1713 AND OF THE PERIOD

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AN INSCRIBED RECTANGULAR DUAN INK STONE
DATED KANGXI CYCLICAL GUISI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1713 AND OF THE PERIOD
The ink stone is smoothly polished with a recessed inkwell below a grinding surface incised with a coin motif, a character, and a seal. The reverse is carved with a second griding surface below a concave inkwell. One side is incised with an inscription signed Wang Shu
(1688-1743) and dated to 1713, the opposite side is incised with a five-character inscription, Shiyizhai zhengcang, ‘Collection of Shiyizhai’, followed by two seals. Accompanied by Momiyama Isyou’s Juxingyan scroll.
Inkstone: 4 3/4 in. (12.2 cm.) long, Japanese wood box
Handscroll: 8 by 223 1/2 in. (20.2 by 563 cm.), ink and colour on paper, Japanese wood box

Lot Essay

Shiyizhai is the hall name of Cheng Conglong, who was active during the 18th century and had published an anthology of seals from the Qin and Han dynasties in 1738. The scroll acccompanying this ink stone bears several colophons, including those by Momiyama
Isyou (1855-1919), Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940), Yang Xuesi, Kimura Seiun (?-1967) and Toyozane Motoyama.

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