id:			540412
accession number:	2023.50
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2023.50
updated:		2025-04-16 18:22:59.573000

Inkstone in the Shape of a Roof Tile with Seal Script Characters, 1700s–1800s. 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. Stone Memorial Fund, 2023.50

title:				Inkstone in the Shape of a Roof Tile with Seal Script Characters
title in original language:	歙石仿漢瓦當硯
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1700s–1800s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1899
current location:		
creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
technique:	She stone
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Qing Dynasty
type:		Stone
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CREATORS

* Workshop of Jian Guzhai  - artist
<em>Jiangu zhai</em>, the manufactory of the Wang Jinsheng family (汪近聖, active early 18th century) in Huizhou, Anhui province, where ink and inkstones were produced, made ink for the imperial palace during the Qing dynasty.
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measurements: Diameter: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	七葉永祥
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	remark:		

	inscription:	「鑑古齋仿製」 
「穎川春暉館文寶」
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Dancing Brush: Ming Dynasty Calligraphers and Eccentrics
	opening date:   2024-09-08T04:00:00
	<i>The Dancing Brush: Ming Dynasty Calligraphers and Eccentrics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 8, 2024-March 2, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Elegantly Made: Art for the Chinese Literati. </em>J. J. Lally &amp; Co., New York, NY (March 13–27, 2020).', 'opening_date': '2020-03-13T04:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection, Japan
	date: ?–2006
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	(Brian Harkins Oriental Art, London, England)
	date: 2006–January 2007
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	Hugh Moss, Shuisongshi Shanfang 水松石山房 [Water, Pine and Stone Retreat] Collection, London, England
	date: 2007–?
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	James J. Lally, New York, NY, consigned to Christie's, New York
	date: by 2020–2023
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	(Christie's, New York, March 23, 2023 sale, lot no. 923, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: March 23, 2023
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2023–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	J.J. Lally &amp; Co, and Richard John Lynn. <em>Elegantly made: art for the Chinese literati</em> [<em>雅製 : 中國文人藝術 = Ya zhi: Zhongguo wen ren yi shu</em>]. New York: J.J. Lally &amp; Co., 2020.
	page number: 	no. 25
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	"Permanent Collection Installations.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 65, no. 3 (2024): 16–17.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 17; Mentioned: p. 16.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM-2024-03

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2023.50/2023.50_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2023.50/2023.50_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2023.50/2023.50_full.tif