Minneapolis Institute of Art
Ink stick in seal form
Attributed to Wang Weigao
- Date
- 18th century
- Medium
- Pine soot and animal adhesive
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
This ink cake, molded in the form of a large official seal, is decorated on its face with a pair of dragons cavorting among the waves. The reverse side, shown here, displays a Ming-style imperial seal-script legend in four large characters, tianfu yongcang (天府永藏), meaning “eternal collection of the heavenly palace.” This cake conforms in shape and design to ink cakes made by the mid-eighteenth-century ink maker Wang Weigao. China, Asia
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