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A carved "bestial" Duan inkstone

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A "copper pot" Duan inkstone

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Cut from brown-purple Duan stone, lustrous surface in rectangular form, thick and upright form,...

A "bats and clouds" Duan inkstone

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Rectangularly carved from Duan inkstone in a black-purple hue, with a naturally formed ink pool...

A Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottle

A Blue and White Porcelain Snuff Bottle
Of cylindrical form with a convex lip and recessed flat foot surrounded by a footrim, the body...

By Chen Duanyou
15.3 * 9.7 * 2cm

Smooth matte surface of dense black-brown stone with extremely fine and realistically relief-carved beast with lion, goat and kylin features, fearsome in appearance, but seated and at ease in posture, executed by the well known inkstone artisan Chen Duanyou (1891-1959).

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