QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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).