Saturday at Sotheby’s: Asian Art Featuring Chinese Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Florence and Herbert Irving Gift

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Lot 1294
  • 1294

THREE CARVED STONE INKSTONES 20TH CENTURY |

Estimate
1,200 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • Length of longest 8 3/8  in., 21.3 cm
comprising a 'horse' inkstone and cover, a leaf-form inkstone with an apocryphal Qianlong inscription and mark; and a 'bamboo' inkstone and box (5)

Provenance

The 'horse' inkstone and cover:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 31st March 1984.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 916. The leaf-form inkstone:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 18th June 1986.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 1809.

The 'bamboo' inkstone:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 21st March 1986.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 988.