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Parcel gilt copper ink slab, water container and brazier, Qing dynasty, China, early 18th century.
Parcel gilt copper combined ink slab, water container and brazier, Qing dynasty, China, 1st half of 18th century. A gilded copper container of interlocking circles form combining an ink-slab, water container and brazier. The top is decorated with stylised kui dragons, the interior ink-slab and water container is separated by a gilded section flanked by bats made to hold the brush. The top third lifts off, the central section is plain, the bottom third has a pierced fringe of kui dragon heads near the top, the feet of bulbous shape and gilded. The bottom section is a tray to hold burning charcoal used to keep the water in the water container from freezing in the depths of the northern Chinese winter.
Unique Identifier
AR917756
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
2831px × 2214px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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18th century
artefact
Artifact
Brazier
china
CHINESE
Copper
country
DECORATION
DYNASTY
eighteenth century
Gilt
ink slab
LOCATION
Metal
Museum of East Asian Art
Object
qing dynasty
water container