QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN IMPERIAL SHE INKSTONE AND INSCRIBED LACQUER BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The rectangular ink stone is carved with an oblong inkwell surrounded by two archaistic dragons. The recessed base is carved in relief with a three-character inscription in a horizontal line reading yuzhi ming, ‘imperial inscription’, above an eight-character poetic inscription. The top of the cover is incised and filled in green lacquer with an inscription dated to the ninth day of the first month of the fourty-seventh year of the Qianlong reign (1783).
6 1⁄4 in. (15.9 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

According to the inscription on the cover, the present inkstone was gifted from the Emperor Qianlong to Lu Feixi (1731-1790), a Qianlong-period scholar-official and the chief editor of the Siku Quanshu. Two other she inkstones with similar inscriptions filled in green lacquer are preserved in the Qing Court collection, and exhibited at the Palace Museum, Beijing, in May 2018 (figs. 1 and 2).

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