COLLECTION NAME:
National Palace English
Record
Work ID:
M010A0021
Title:
Song-hua stone with mystical tortoise carrying books
Creation Date:
Qian-long reign, Qing Dynasty
Start Year Date:
A.D.1736
End Year Date:
A.D.1795
Dynasty:
67 Qian-long reign (A.D. 1736~1795)
Creation Place:
China
Measurements:
Length: 19.2 cm (with lid); Width: 13.3 cm; Thickness: 2.5 cm
Material:
Song-hua stone
Form:
Yan (ink-stone)
Type:
Studio accessories
Subject:
Animals
Repository:
The National Palace Museum, Taipei
Description:
The inkstone is made of songhua stone and is rectangular in shape. The inkstone body is affixed to a stand with one foot-knob on each corner. The brownish yellow inkstone has a green ink-face, where ink is ground with visible thin stripes and light green dots. The ink-face has a dimension of 11.0 cm x 8.4 cm; its sides are decorated with two hornless dragons facing each other. The inkstone cover is also made of a light green songhua stone. Its decoration is an embossment in relief of mountain and clouds and roaring sea as background, with a dragon and horse bearing a drawing on the mountain and a tortoise bearing a book in the sea. On the upper right, an inscription describes the picture: dragon and horse hold a drawing, tortoise offers a book."
ImageV ID:
M010A0021AS001
Rights:
Lee & Lee Communications