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"title": "Ink Cake with Wang Ziqiao",
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"title": "Garden, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints",
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"title": "China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta",
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"date": "?\u20131942",
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"description": "Ink cakes were dissolved with water to be used for writing and painting. This ink cake depicts the immortal Wang Ziqiao riding a crane and playing a sheng (wind instrument with reeds). Legend says that he was a prince who became a Daoist immortal.
The design was likely borrowed from an illustrated Ming dynasty book on Daoist immortals printed in Anhui, the Liexian Quanzhuan. Ink cakes using Fang Yulu\u2019s name, a famous ink maker in Huizhou, Anhui province, may just as well be products of followers who aspired to profit from his fame. His greatest local rival was his former mentor Cheng Dayue (1541\u2013after 1610).",
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"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \u201cA Gift of Chinese Inks.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 1 (January 1946): 3\u20135, 11.",
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"citation": "Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. Edited by Clarissa von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
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