Ink Cake

CultureChinese
Titles
  • Ink Cake
Date1368–1644
PlaceChina
MediumCarbon
Dimensions5 11/16 × 1 13/16 × 9/16 in. (14.4 × 4.6 × 1.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jesse Lee Dunn III
Object number2000.711.2
Non exposé

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Department
Asian Art
ProvenanceResearch Ongoing
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on the front, Nine (Jin); abstruse, incredible, profound (Xuan); three (san); dearly, exceedingly, extreme, the utmost point, ultra (ji). Two vertical lines in rectangle below - on the left, person (Ren), life (shen), one (yi), happy (Le) and on the right is the seal of the owner.

53 characters inscribed on the back.

Inscribed on the side: Letter (Han), old man (Weng), by himself (Zhi), engraved (Ming), at (yu), an area's name (Lu), inspector (Jian), produce (Zhi).

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