Lot 2932
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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SONGHUA ‘SUN AND MOON’ INKSTONE, GILT AND POLYCHROME LACQUERED BOX AND COVER
AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SONGHUA ‘SUN AND MOON’ INKSTONE, GILT AND POLYCHROME LACQUERED BOX AND COVER
AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SONGHUA ‘SUN AND MOON’ INKSTONE, GILT AND POLYCHROME LACQUERED BOX AND COVER
AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SONGHUA ‘SUN AND MOON’ INKSTONE, GILT AND POLYCHROME LACQUERED BOX AND COVER
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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SONGHUA ‘SUN AND MOON’ INKSTONE, GILT AND POLYCHROME LACQUERED BOX AND COVER

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SONGHUA ‘SUN AND MOON’ INKSTONE, GILT AND POLYCHROME LACQUERED BOX AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The inkstone is carved as two conjoined circles representing the sun and the moon, framed by a band of keyfrets at the mouth rim. The base is incised with an eightcharacter inscription, yi jing wei yong, shi yi yong nian, ‘Through passivity to achieve perpetual continuity’, followed by a square seal containing two characters, yu ming, ‘Imperially inscribed’.
Ink stone: 3 15⁄16 in. (10 cm. wide); lacquer box and cover: 4 1⁄4 in. (11 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box

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For other imperial inkstones of this distinctive ‘sun and moon’shape, see two examples in the Palace Museum, Beijing, one made of She stone, the other of Duan stone, illustrated in Zhongguo wenfang sibao quanji (2): yan, Beijing, 2007, no. 155 and no. 174, respectively.

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