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        "title": "Box with Ink Cakes: Red Ink Cake in Shape of a Kui Dragon",
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        "description": "Ink cakes (also called ink sticks) are dissolved with the addition of water and then ground on the surface of a flat square stone into liquid ink for painting and calligraphy. The precious ink cakes here, however, have never been used.<br><br>The inscription on the side of the blue ink cake says that the set was commissioned by Chen Huai, Governor of Jiangxi Province.",
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