Ink Cake with Wang Ziqiao

c. 1600s Diameter: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.233

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 borrowe...

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