Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Auction Closed
November 6, 06:16 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A RARE SET OF EIGHT IMPERIALLY INSCRIBED INK CAKES
JIAQING MARKS AND PERIOD
清嘉慶 御題詩「惲壽平仿倪瓚八萬圖」墨錠一組八件《大清嘉慶年製》款
each of rectangular form, moulded to one face with a landscape taken from a painting by Yun Shouping, accompanied with a title in gilt, the reverse impressed and gilt with a corresponding poem beneath a yuzhi mark, the sides incisded with a six-character reign mark, all within a fitted rectangular lacquer box and cover, the cover inlaid with mother-of-pearl around the rims and painted in gold lacquer with two ferocious five-clawed dragons writhing amidst stylised clouds, centrered on an inscription inlaid in mother-of-pearl, reading Yu ti Yun Shouping fang Nizan Ba wan tu shi mo ('Imperially inscribed ink cakes with eight paintings by Yun Shouping in the style of Nizan and poem)
(10)
Each 10.7 by 5.1 by 1.7 cm, 4¼ by 2 by⅝ in.