SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)

An inkstone and cover of similar form and with similar bracket legs, carved with foliage on the cover, was excavated from a Northern Song tomb at Macheng, Hubei, and illustrated in Kaogu, 1965, No. 1, p. 24, plate 10. See, also, a two-part Song-dynasty inkstone and cover of rectangular form, carved in shallow relief with a swan-goose amidst water weeds, illustrated by S. Kwan in Chinese Inkstones, 2005, no. 68, p. 212.