Set of Ten Ink Cakes with Poems of the Ten Scenes at the West Lake in Cursive Script Style (xingshu), 1736-95. China, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1736-95). Ink cakes; average: x cm (1 9/16 x 3 1/4 in.). This exquisite lacquer box contains ten ink cakes of different shapes and colors. Each is inscribed in gold with a poem by the Qianlong emperor, praising the ten famous sights of the Westlake in Hangzhou, near Shanghai. The Westlake is famous for its natural beauty; it was a favorite imperial destination and remains a tourist attraction cakes (also called ink st
Set of Ten Ink Cakes with Poems of the Ten Scenes at the West Lake in Cursive Script Style (xingshu), 1736-95. China, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1736-95). Ink cakes; average: x cm (1 9/16 x 3 1/4 in.). This exquisite lacquer box contains ten ink cakes of different shapes and colors. Each is inscribed in gold with a poem by the Qianlong emperor, praising the ten famous sights of the Westlake in Hangzhou, near Shanghai. The Westlake is famous for its natural beauty; it was a favorite imperial destination and remains a tourist attraction cakes (also called ink sticks) are dissolved with the addition of water and ground on the surface of a flat stone into liquid ink for painting and calligraphy. The precious ink cakes here, however, have never been inscription in mother of pearl inlay on the box’s cover says: Imperially Made Gold Inscribed Poems of Images of [the Ten] Sights of the Westlake.
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