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Summary
Set of Ten Ink Cakes with Poems of the Ten Scenes at the West Lake in Cursive Script Style (xingshu)
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| Title |
Set of Ten Ink Cakes with Poems of the Ten Scenes at the West Lake in Cursive Script Style (xingshu) |
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| Description |
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 today. Ink 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 used. The 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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| Date | 1736 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Ink cakes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Average: 3.9 x 8.3 cm (1 9/16 x 3 1/4 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese Art |
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| Accession number |
1942.215 |
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| Place of creation | China, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1736-95) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Henry W. Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.215 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 14:11, 21 January 2019 | | 3,400 × 2,366 (1.95 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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