A PALE CELADON JADE 'LOTUS' INKSTONE QING DYNASTY |

of oval form, carved with a lotus pad spreading across the underside, its furling edges wrapping over the surface to define the border of the grinding plane, a pair of slender leaves in high relief dividing the plane from the small, deep water well at one end, two open lotus blossoms rising along the side of the well, the details naturalistically rendered, the stone a translucent pale celadon with faint icy-white veins

Spink & Son, London, 10th May 1988.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 471.

The inkstone is in good condition with only a couple minute shallow nicks.
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