Sale 2648
New York
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22 March 2012
Price realised
USD 16,250
Estimate
AN UNUSUAL SMALL INSCRIBED DUAN INKSTONE Of dark purplish-brown color and in the shape of an elongated section of rock face, with a circular pale brown 'eye' at the mutual edge of the smooth grinding surface and the irregularly shaped well, with two lines of calligraphy, shanggao yuexiao and Shouzhi shou zhuo, inscribed on one of the roughly textured long sides 4¾ in. (12.2 cm.) long, fitted wood box
Provenance
Charlotte Horstmann, Hong Kong.
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