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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 26, 2018 | Christie's | Hong Kong | Beyond Compare: A Thousand Years of the Literati Aesthetic (Evening Sale) | 8019 | $****** - ****** | RUAN YUAN'S GREEN DUAN INKSTONE MOUNTAIN |
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62.9 cm (24.75 in)
Zhang Xi (1802-1822)
Ruan Yuan (1764-1849)
Jiansongge Collection, Taipei
Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection, purchased from above in 2005
Ruan Yuan, Yanjingshiji, vol. 2, juan 6
The Duan inkstone is cleverly worked into the shape of a rolling mountain, detailed with ridges and valleys utilising the natural contours of the stone, the surface delicately carved in low relief with a panoply of trees and waterfall to form an idyllic landscape, some of the stone’s yellowish ‘skin’ retained to represent coloured autumn leaves. At one end a small concave well is hallowed out to serve as a brush washer, and two peaks are hallowed to the top, possibly as receptacles for brushes. The back is incised with two inscriptions, a signature and a seal reading:
Autumn Colours in Lintong
In the twenty-fifth year of Jiaqing, I was in Yuedong arranging matters of matrimony, when I acquired this gigantic boulder from the Duan River. I (had it) carved as a inkstone mountain, and titled it ‘Autumn Colours of Lintong’ to commemorate my place of origin. My uncle immediately wrote to me to say:
That’s an inkstone mountain!
Written by Zhang Xi of Yangzhou
Green Boulder of Duan River
Seal: Langhuan Qianguan
Together with a framed rubbing of the inkstone mountain.
