Cylindrical inkstick inscribed with "Shansong zhi"

Unknown artist

明 西元1368-1644年

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National Palace Museum

A dark, cylindrical inkstick is carved with a coiled dragon and a monkey's face. 圓柱狀墨，壁模印浮雕之單角夔龍，身軀自下而上繞柱蟠昇，遍體細麟毛，虎虎有神。柱頂模印細陽文，中心為「文寶」二篆圓印，環以行楷款︰「山松脂墨。嘉靖乙卯小華。」柱底為一本七莖的靈芝紋。乙卯為嘉靖三十四年(1555)，羅龍文(小華)尚在江浙撫胡宗憲處為幕賓，此墨或為貢進尚方，備崇信道教的明世宗建醮之用。董其昌述造墨名手，在「若我朝墨定當以羅小華鹿角膠為第一，龍柱次之，華山松又次之。」此墨應即為龍柱之類。 Object number: 故文000120N000000000 Rights: Cylindrical inkstick inscribed with "Shansong zhi", The National Palace Museum, Taipei, CC BY 4.0 @ www.npm.gov.tw IIIF manifest: https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.tw/Integrate/GetJson?cid=2368&dept=U