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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) | 8016 | $****** - ****** | AN EXTREMELY RARE DUAN INK STONE |
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Date Family, acquired in 19th century (by repute)
Nagao Uzan (1864-1942), Kyoto
Matsunaga Shuji (1884-1972), Tokushima Prefecture
Shimoda Kozan (dates unknown), acquired in 1938
Matsubayashi Gadai (dates unknown), acquired before 1943
A Japanese private collection, acquired in the late 1980s
Mayuyama Ryusendo, Meikenten, 9-15 October 1987, no. 13
Shoen, vol. 3: no. 1, Tokyo, 1939, p. 47 (fig. 1)
Meikenten, Tokyo, 1987, no. 13
The upper surface is smoothly polished with a narrow, shaped indentation on one end forming the inkwell beneath an olive-green ‘eye’. The hollowed sloping underside is scattered with twenty-eight cylinders of varying heights representing the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Chinese constellation system, below another ‘eye’ at the corner symbolising the moon, each of these cylinders is centred with an ‘eye’. The stone is of a deep purplish-brown colour with olive-green mottling and dark brown veining.
