{"data": {"id": 540412, "accession_number": "2023.50", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Inkstone in the Shape of a Roof Tile with Seal Script Characters (\u6b59\u77f3\u4eff\u6f22\u74e6\u7576\u786f), 1700s\u20131800s. Workshop of Jian Guzhai. She stone; diameter: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. 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Lally, New York, NY, consigned to Christie's, New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "by 2020\u20132023", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "(Christie's, New York, March 23, 2023 sale, lot no. 923, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "March 23, 2023", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2023\u2013", "sortorder": 6}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The four large seal script characters on the base of this inkstone, \u4e03\u8449\u6c38\u7965, may be read as \"eternal good fortune for seven generations.\"", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This inkstone is particularly noteworthy for its inscriptions in two styles. The base shows four characters in seal script (<em>zhuanshu</em>) expressing auspicious, or favorable wishes, while the characters on the side in standard script (<em>kaishu</em>) record the name of the workshop and that of the collector\u2019s studio.<br>Inkstones were used to grind solid ink cakes with the addition of water to produce liquid ink for brush painting and calligraphy.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121092826"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2023.50-inkstone-in-the-shap"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "J.J. Lally &amp; Co, and Richard John Lynn. <em>Elegantly made: art for the Chinese literati</em> [<em>\u96c5\u88fd : \u4e2d\u570b\u6587\u4eba\u85dd\u8853 = Ya zhi: Zhongguo wen ren yi shu</em>]. New York: J.J. 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