Artist:
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Wang Chin-shen
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Title:
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Imperial Ink Cake
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Date:
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1736-1795
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Medium:
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Colors, gold and animal adhesive
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Dimensions:
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15/16 x 7 1/4 in. (2.38 x 18.42 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
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Location:
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Gallery 217
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This rare and unusual imperial ink cake has the form and color of a shallow carved lacquer dish. Red ink was used in official court transcripts for punctuation, corrections, and imperial inscriptions. This specially commissioned cake was likely made to commemorate an important court event. The central medallion is finely worked with a pair of gilt dragons flanking a two-character inscription that reads "imperially bestowed." The cavetto bears a long seal-script inscription. The reverse is decorated with archaistic dragons and flowing pearls in low relief as well as a gilt nine-character mark that reads "Made by Wang Chin-sheng in the Chin-lung period of the great Ch'ing dynasty."
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Chin-shen, Wang
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Nationality:
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Chinese
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Life Dates:
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active 18th century
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Mark nine character mark: [Made by Wang Chin-sheng in the Chin-lung period of the great Ch'ing dynasty]
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Classification:
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Ink (Do Not Use)
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Physical Description:
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dish-shaped red ink cake with incised gilt dragons and 2 gilt characters at center; gilt inscription inside square on bottom; 2 rows of raised characters around edge; raised abstracted dragons around edge on bottom
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Creation Place:
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Asia, China, , ,
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Accession #:
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2000.154
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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