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天硯圖 - Picture of Heavenly Inkstone*
乾隆辛未夏癭瓢子愼寫
In the Summer of Qianlong - Metal-Sheep - Year (1751) Painted by Yingpiaozi Shen
Upper seal,
黄愼 - Huang Shen
Lower seal,
恭壽 - Gongshou
*Su Shi, poet of the Song Dynasty was a collector of inkstones. His first inkstone was obtained when he was 12 years old. The picture depicts the scene when the "Heavenly Inkstone" (what we call now, a natural inkstone) was handed over to him by his father.
Huang Shen 黄愼 1687-1751
Courtesy name; Gongshou
Pseudonym; Yingpiaozi (Gall scoop)
Chinese painter during the Qin Dynasty. One of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.
With regards,
I.Nagy
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