Box with Ink Cakes: Yellow Ink Stick in Shape of a Buddhist "Wheel of the Law"
1795–1820
Case: 26.4 x 19.1 cm (10 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.); Lid: 26.5 x 19.2 cm (10 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.206.e
Ink cakes (also called ink sticks) are dissolved with the addition of water and then ground on the surface of a flat square stone into liquid ink for painting and calligraphy. The precious ink cakes here, however, have never been used.The inscription on the side of the blue in...
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Terms
Technique
Molded ink in yellow
Medium
Molded ink in yellow
Genre
Miscellaneous
Department
Chinese Art
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