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A Very Short Summery about She Inkstone!

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•     What are Inkstones

  Ever since there was paper and Chinese ink writing there was ink stone well. The earliest existing reference goes back to five thousand years ago. Often ink stone wells are simply called inkstones. The ordinary use of inkstone is to use the ink stick to rub on the stone to make the ink for writing and painting.  Not every piece of stone can be made into an inkstone. For example, a stone that is too rough, when used to make the ink will come out with too much deposits that is damaging to the painting brush. Some might come out too thin and not with enough intensity to make a lasting painting. Some inkstone will absorb the ink quickly. Thousands of years ago the scholars and artists found that certain stones from a specific region, especially after the stone has been mined and buried under the ground for thousands of years make the best ink wells. This is how She inkstones became one of the Four Treasures of Chinese Study. Because of the popularity of inkstone collecting, the decorative carvings of an inkstone became a recognized and distinguished art itself pursued by artists and craftsmen throughout Chinese history.

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• Thousands of years of She Inkstone Collecting --- One of the Four Treasures of Chinese Study

1) The Value and Significance of Chinese Study Object Collecting is best Illustrated by the Following exhibition at:

National Palace Museum in Taiwan
From the introduction of this exhibition, more than two hundred years ago, Chinese Emperor Ch'ien-lung feared of losing the traditional art of inkstone carving, commanded scholars creating a catalog of the instones collected by the emperors court. Four pieces of inkstone in the catalog are shown on the following web page:
http://www.npm.gov.tw/exhbition/cink0003/ink_c2.htm
Click on anything that you can click on the museum page, in this way you get to see all the pieces!

2) The following exhibition is by the Qin Wang Society in Taiwan:

http://www.752000.88602.com/english/x-1.htm
Both exhibitions had She and Duan inkstones illustrated!

  North Song calligrapher Cai Ran (1012 -- 1067) once came to She county hoping to get a She ink well. He put out a table in front  of the Changqin Tower (this can be seen from the painting by Yao Bin) to sell his calligraphy. His calligraphy was immediately grabbed by the people walking by as soon as he wrote them.  For the ink he brought a brick ink well. It absorbs the ink, so he often spent a lot of time to make the ink and sometimes his calligraphy did not come out as expected because of the lack of appropriate ink in the ink well. One day, an old monk saw this and laughed hard "Your calligraphy is full of vitality, but your ink stone is causing you failed brush strokes." Cai said "Not to pretend in front of you, I came here not to sell calligraphy, but to get a good She Ink Stone." The monk loved Cai Ran's talent, he returned to the temple and brought him a She Ink Well. Looking at this Ink Stone; it is hard and durable, feels the dampness of the deep mountain and smooth like a baby's skin. Easy to make the ink with a touch of water, the color of the ink is clean and transparent. Knocking with a finger, the sound is crisp and clear. Do not damage the brush and stores the ink for a long time without freeze or dryness. Cai Ran loved it and could not put it down. He spontaneously   wrote: Pure as jade with delicate fine grains, No sound heard while rubbing the Ink Stick, Anyone would ask me to exchange for this, I would ask for fifteen cities of Ching Dynasty. From this we can see how much the scholars treasured the She Ink stones.

  Almost every historically known Chinese artist or scholar including Wang Xizhi (303--361), Su Dongbo (1037 -- 1101), O Yangxiu (1007 -- 1072), Li Bai (701 -- 762) etc. had visited She county, Hui Zhou in seeking of a priceless She Ink Well. Because of this and   also the very different prosperous economic period especially the very famous Huizhou salt merchants that were dominant in the whole southern China, brought to this region a lot of historical existence of Architectural (the famous Hui Style Houses can be seen from the movie --- Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon), monumental calligraphy carvings left by the famous poets and artists. Wealth and natural beauty like Huangshan, Jiu Huashan, etc. inspired and produced a lot of historically very well known artists and scholars.  Huang, Binghong (1865-1955), even though he was born in the neibouring province Zhe Jian, because his ancestry was from Hui Zhou, he spent many many years cultivating and teaching in Huizhou. At the famous Archery monument town Tanyue, his old resident is currently a museum commemorating him as one of the greatest Chinese master.

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•    What is the Geological Components of She inkstones

She inkstones mostly are rare slate or powerdered sandy slate stones, not like Cheng Ni stones which is soft  even a finger nail can leave a mark on the stone. She inkstone is hard and as smooth as a baby's skin. Not everywhere in Huizhou can dig out a place and be able to find stones good for making ink stones. Even if there was a mine being found, may be there is a section with thickness of 0.4 to 4 meters can be exploited. Among the exploited stones, less than 1.87% can be taken for ink stone candidates. Most of the slate stones will be too rough or too easy to chip to be able to make into ink stones. The different grains and marks are different chemical compositions after the slate stone being oxidized. For example, Gold marks is brown iron ore (limonite). Gold Star: pyrite. There is one kind of red inkstone which is mudstone mostly close to Duan inkstone, it also has different type of eyes. It is a new founding in Huizhou area, locally it's called She Red. Currently we do not offer this kind of stones. The good inkstone pieces are the old mine stones which means the stone was exploited hundreds or thousands years ago and being buried and oxidized underground. The two major difference of old and new are: new stones have a lot of fine pores that absorbs ink. New stones will not have crisp metal sound when knocked on the finger tip. A good piece of old stone has very crisp metal sound even as one touches their hand through the stone. To be able to identify an old piece of stone is also from experience. Also a good piece of stone should not have calcite marks or even hair thin cracks. Also the old mine stone feels very cold and damp.

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• What is the major difference between She Instone and Duan Inkstone

• Where are the Major She Inkstone Mines

  The She ink stone mines are mainly distributed in the region of old Hui Zhou. By old Hui Zhou we mean a few dynasties back. In the old days Hui Zhou included the region of Wuyuan, currently in Jiangxi province which has some mines that were exploited around Tang Dynasty (1200 years ago). There are some hundreds to thousands year old ink stone mines in Shexian (currently a county in Hui Zhou), Xiuling, Jingxian, Huangshan etc. According to geological research, this region was an ocean of sea four billion years ago. After the stones being mined and buried again under the ground for another thousand years, fossilized, moved, and brushed by water and sand, what you get is a good ink stone.

  There are several major kinds of She inkstones from different mines. All these mines were in the Old Huizhou region, until it was subdivided in history. They are distributed among the same mountain ridge. This is how the Dragon's tail and Dragon's head names come from.

• Wuyuan, Jianxi Dragon's Tail stone

  This is the most exploited and famous She inkstone. To collectors this is also the most valuable kind of stones. Among people who know about She inkstones, the name She inkstone has it's specific meaning ---- stone from Wuyuan, Jianxi, but carved by an artist in She county. So a genuine She inkstone is a Dragon's Tail stone carved by a She artist. For thousands of years this has been the case and still it's true for serious collectors. There are several reasons for this. First of course is these stones are highest quality as inkstones. They are very smooth and easy to make ink from. The ones that are buried under water are even better and rare. As one holds in the hand the dampness is immediately felt. These inkstones really matches the She inkstone fame: One can breath on the stone to make ink out of it. Another reason is the look of the stone. They are usually very dark, the gold star and gold patch is very alive and shinning. They are like floating on the stone. Because of these reasons, they have been known for thousands of years. Of course this leads to rarity. They become more and more rare. Nowadays it's very hard to find pieces that are perfect. Almost all of them have some defects. The most common one is undesirable stone veins that does not match with its grain. Another one is hair thin cracks that are not easy to see by eye. For a big piece of Dragon's Tail stone, if the plate part for rubbing the inkstick is perfect, it's called a wonderful rare piece of She inkstone.  By the begining of Song dynasty, genuine old mine dragon's tail stone was already exhausted from production, nowdays, only small pieces or limited number of big good pieces can be found from carvers or collectors.  Most of our collections are these kind of inkstones.

• Daban Gold Star Patch, also Jianxi stone

This is another major media that She artists and merchants like to make inkstone from. They are not very expensive, good for making inkstones. Its easy to find big pieces with beautiful Gold patches. Artists like them because they can use them to make big pieces of landscape, figure, or any other impressive carvings. Almost all achieved artists have big pieces of their work on this kind of stones including Jianchen, Sulu, Guihai, Yongchen, Mingxue, and others. We will get some examples of these for demonstrating. We do not collect these pieces. We have some of these pieces for our viewers, because some pieces are so special, its impossible to see another similar one again, some of the art works are so beautiful and also they provide an inexpensive alternative for some artists who need a big piece of inkstone for use, and these inkstones are more affordable and practical. For the few famous carving artists, because their art works are so well appreciated, inkstones by them on these big pieces are also becoming valuable. At the same time, if anyone is interested in importing these as commercial inkstones for use, both price limit and quantities can be met.

• Daguyuan stone, from She county, Huizhou.  The mountain is also identified as the Dragon's Head

In She county, there are ink stone mines that were also exploited thousands of years ago. They have beautiful very dark inkstones and easier than old mine dragon's tails to find perfect pieces because it has not been exploited much for the last thousand years. These inkstones feels like baby's skin, tappes with very crisp metal sound, and they makes wonderful fine ink just like the dragon's tail stone. The story goes, people dig out the inkstones from She county and ship them to Wuyuan, Jianxi and was buried in the mountains of Wuyuan. Then they were digging out in Wuyuan to be presented to the inkstone merchants, and the stones were really being highly   evaluated and appraised.  Daguyuan mine is one of these old mines. These mines have been supporting the local inkstone economy. Large inkstones made from these mines are exported to Japan and sold as Lao Kang She inkstones. For most people cannot tell the difference between the Dragon's Tail She inkstone and Daguyuan stone. We tell the difference by experience and also by their character. They usually are very dark, some have silver stars. They have big pieces with no defects at all. For most artists, the prices between two different stones can be very big. For example, from Yongchen, a genuine old mine dragon's tail stone, he can ask for 15,000 RMB. For a good size inkstone made of Daguyuan stone, he will just ask for a few hundred RMB.

• Jiujian Brush Sweep Mark stone, from Jiujian, Jianxi.

  These are newly found old mine stones. Because they are very smooth and have beautiful fine marks that look as if a brush has been swept through it and also they have very intricate gold star patch marks too. We saw some very beautiful pieces produced by very good artists. For example Guihai likes to use these to carve his story like pieces. His unique figure carving combined with different gold patch formations on the top of the stone, classic Chinese stories like: Dragon's daughter Sheppering, Dreams of Zhuanzi   (Famous Chinese philosopher), Fairy Lady Playing Music are vividly presented on these pieces.  But also there is Old Mine Brush Sweep Dragon's Tail stones, they are very rare and much much more expensive. We have one piece at the end of page sold.

• Jade Mountain stone

These stones are softer than others and also a little bid easier to find. The rare one's are perfect Fish Egg grain ones. Sometimes it's rare to see a piece with line thin eyebrows marks in pairs. But most of the Jade mountain inkstones are cheap and not easy to make ink. Produced in quantities in Jianxi province.

• Old Mine Miao Qian Qing ---- Front Temple Blue

These inkstones are found in front of a temple in south of She county at the village of Zhou Jia Cun. Beautiful almost jade like green color, sometimes with beautiful long eyebrows marks like the one jccarv131 under Jiangchen's inkstone portfolio.

• She Red

Looks and feels just like a Duan insktone, these are found in Anhui, Xiuling county. Able to find big flawless pieces. Sulu Chen likes to use these carve into copies of old antique inkstones, by smoking and other procedure, they look like perfect real "antiques". But these are different from cheap molded inkstones from inferior casting material, he actually spent a lot of time and skill to carve these Duan look like inkstones.

Besides the different kinds of stones from different mines, the old mine and the new mine, also there are different marks and grains for each different stone.  To learn about the appearance of each markings, please scroll to the end of the page and examine every reference pieces that were introduced by us to collectors.

  For example, the most rare stone in our collection is the Jade patch Dragon's Tail stone. Looking from the front, even most of the stone carvers cannot tell it's a dragon's tail stone, because almost no one ever seen this kind of stone. But from the back, it's immediately identifiable. Its a turtle back grain stone. The layers has a formation like a turtle's back. Looking at the side, we can see where the Jade layer is formed on top of the ordinary slate stone. Rare stones like this are treasured by artists and collectors. We can show you a very rare inkstone that were found by Sulu Chen. He saw this in the brook when he was walking on the path in Wuyuan, Jinxi while he was exploiting stones. He paid someone jump in the water and had it picked up from the water. The She inkstone is wrapped by a layer of white crystal. In the middle of the stone, it has a white formation look like a white goose and there is another white formation look like the egg of the goose at the ink well. Sulu take it's formation, carved the very minimum and made it into a priceless inkstone. He sold this for 3000 RMB to a very known local collector, last year we heard museums want to pay three million RMB for it. From what I know, the owner did not want to sell it.

  Among the two most rare and best Dragon's Tail stones are Eyebrows Mark and Jade Belt Gold Star (or Color Belt Silver Star, As rare, but the marks are not as obvious)   stones. They are the most rare and very best quality of inkstones. An un-carved piece could demand for a lot of money.

  Various Water Wave Mark, any meaningful Gold Star or Gold Star Patch Dragon's Tail stones are also very valuable. Some stones have combinations of both.  Any little pieces of Dragon's Tail stones with no defects can worth quite a bit of money. The most known small collector's items are the ornamental inkstones, they are beautiful pieces to play in hand, put on the desk or end tables, gifts for friends and She inkstones are always treasured gifts for foreign diplomats,  presidents, and important government figures.

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• How to Select Collectible She Inkstones

  Almost everyone visited She county and complaining the inkstones there are so expensive. There are three reasons for it.

1) One is She carving artists are expensive. As you will see later, they are not ordinary craftsmen anymore.  Besides She inkstones are not just a widely collected crafts any more, a lot of the pieces are sold as art pieces, among the known and recognized artists, each artist has a price range and they keep moving up. Prices for She inkstones peaked in 1995. As a whole market prices came down a lot. As the Japanese (the biggest buyer of She inkstones and Huizhou inksticks) economy recovering, prices started to move up again since last year. But even during this big down turn, the few best artists kept there prices up and moving higher. As they are always in demand.

2) Second almost all the artists I know only use their hands and chisel working on each carving piece. The only time they use a machine to help is to cut a piece of stone. Even the last procedure of smoothing the stone is done by hand. Our artist Libing does all the rubbing and smoothing by himself, because he is afraid someone else will destroy the very fine, straight,  and delicate sides of the inkstone that he carved out, look simple but its a very special skill not everyone can do. He does not even trust his own wife to help him. Generally speaking, labour fee in She county is higher than any surronding areas, even a wooden or silk box that's made there cost more, but we have to say the qualities are also much better and no where can compare to it. Nowdays most of the boxes you see in the local store or studio are made in Jianxi province. All the artists we work with, we pay for the boxes for them and we always get the best quality. Some of the pieces came with the boxes, so you are going to see some inconsistancy in the boxes. Because we do not mark up for any of these services, you are going to see our prices reflect the quality of boxes.

  3) The mark up in local stores and local studios are fairly high. Some of the pieces that we purchased from the studios, we noticed their prices are higher than what we can offer here. For example, the following piece was marked at 800 RMB, this is approximately $100. We offer it here at $65. Can they get $100 in China, very likely they can, because there are so many collectors in China for She inkstones and always there are buyers from other Asia countries. What We hope is through our service, more and more people will learn about the artistry in Huizhou area and more and more people learn to appreciate the service that we provide. Of course we need all the patronage that we could get to keep this web site running and keep our business running. We also try to introduce other products and services to obtain the funding for our cause of introducing the culture of this small closed off area in China.  

  Under most circumstances, what you pay is what you get. In this case, you pay a little bit more, but what you get is genuine original pieces from each individual artist, not mass produced commercial products! For a collector,   the very first step is to distinguish between commercial inkstones and unique collectibles. Same as in any other collectibles items -- rarity defines value. Currently there are several kinds of commercial products.

•      1)     Large quantities of inkstones made of newly mined stones. These inkstones are very affordable, most of the carvings are done by machines. Some of them can be good alternatives for use by students and artists.

Both of these are commercial inkstones. The one on the left is imported from Jianxi province by She merchants. Made of newly mined stone, carved by half machine and half hands. Not mention the rough carving on the sides, the rubbing surface is not even smooth. The right one is hand carved by an already bankrupted inkstone factory in She county. Its all hand crafted for exporting to Japan and made from Daguyuan Old Mine Stone. The Daguyuan stone is a really superb quality inkstone. While the newly mined stone is not really quite suitable as inkstone. Generally speaking Jianxi stones, old mine or new mine, they are not as dark as Daguyuan stones. The white dots on the right one are silver dots (color white). The left one cost half  in She county compare to the right one.

2)    Large quantities of non-Dragon's Tail old mine inkstones made in Jianxi province. Some are carved by machine. Some are one format of simple carvings or marks. They are carved more or less the same. The boxes are also made the cheapest way. They are also very inexpensive. There are quite a bit of local merchants who import these from Jianxi province and sell them in She county as She inkstones. They are much richer than the individual artists.

These are commercially made from Jiujian Brush Swept Mark Old Mine stone. Eventhough they make large quantities of them, at least they are not so badly  made. There is no collecting value, but they are good inexpensive  alternatives for artists use. The boxes are not that well made to cut costs.
	Size: 4.65x6.97x0.71 inches Anyone interested in importing these, we can help you out! We just put up some examples, there are a lot of selections of these inkstones. We do not intend to import these, unless on request by any individual.

3)     Another kind of commercial products are replicates of famous artist pieces, especially from known artists like Sulu Chen, Jianchen Fang, Mingxue, Guihai, Yongchen, etc. There merchants hire carvers and make these elaborated duplicates. If you see the same pattern of carvings in different stores, then you know how they get there.  The workers at the other end usually get very little pay. What you enriched are the merchants pockets. This last winter we were at She county for more than six weeks. We saw how this is happening. Sulu Chen had a new design he calls it: Bright Moon Shinning through the Pine Needles! He is the grandmaster of She classic inkstone carving. But he is a very slow worker. One piece of art work takes him usually a long time. When we visited him, he showed us his new work which he has not finished yet. He told us this is something that no one did it before. The following week when we visited one of the local store, a replicates of his piece already appeared in the store and cost much less. Of course, we lost our interest in Sulu Chen's piece too. We told Sulu Chen the story, he feels helpless, all he could say was he cannot even have any helper now. Because through the helpers, the street learn what he is carving.

  4) Besides "She" commercial inkstones, She county also makes a lot of different kinds of other commercial inkstones. For example, ChengNi inkstones. Because ChengNi basically is mud clay stones, it's soft and very easy to carve. Merchants can really hire very cheap beginner carvers to make these inkstones in large quantities. Here we can show you an example. Click on the images for details. Any importer interested in this, we can point you to the right supplier. They make various designs and various sizes. Another kind of commercial instone is inkcake inkstones. They are made from a mould just like making an inkcake, their appearance can be very attractive after some gold and brown colors applied and they look like antique. They called "Mu Yan".

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• She Inkstone Carving Artists

  She inkstones used to be collected as a valuable crafts. No carving artist were ever recorded in history. Inkstone carving were not treated as an art until Qing dynasty. Mi Fu was a calligrapher, artist, and a collector. He was the first one in Qing Dynasty who started to take the natural beauty of the inkstone into consideration of the carving design. But he did not make much impact. His view dissappeared for another few hundred years. But for the last fifty years, the father and son: Qinshu Fang and Jianchen Fang forever changed how She inkstone carving is being viewed and evaluated.  Especially Jianchen Fang who brought this thousands year old crafts into modern art.  His innovation not just changed how She instones are being appreciated and collected, more important is he brought new blood into this profession. All the carving artists including the old and young, the skilled or the new apprentice are affected by his idea and innovations. We see these traces in Sulu Chen's work, even though he still is more toward the traditional carving style. The piece below is by Sulu Chen. Here he used the beautiful gold patch on the stone and the water wave mark in the rubbing area, the storm and the stillness in the cave is presented without any carving. The contrast could not be shown better. While if according to traditional design, the craftsmen would knock out or carve on the gold patch on the top and carve a full of landscape scenes on the stone.

  1)  Jianchen is the richest and most famous She inkstone carving artist. He is called the soul of inkstone carving. For the last twenty years, he exhibited all over Asia including Taiwan, Hongkong, Singapore, Japan, ...... He sold one of his inkstone carving to the Japanese museum for 70, 000 USA dollars. We noticed all the younger generations respected his work and a lot of them have collections of his art works or his student Mingxue's art work. Jianchen is a very generous man. Besides working closely  with his students, he brings a lot of exposure to his students by providing opportunities of exhibitions to them. He is also very generous in helping other people's students. We saw quite a bit of his signatures and comments on the rubbings of young carving artists who are students of Sulu Chen.  In this way he enriched others and others respected him as one of the greatest artists.

2) Qinshu Fang -- Father of Jianchen Fang. Chengxia Fang -- sister of Jianchen Fang

Qinshu is the  older generation of She carving artists. Layed the foundation for a lot of the yonger generations. We noticed all the very good carvers are started with a very good classic carving skill including Jianchen Fang. Qinshu Fang, his son Jianchen Fang, and daughter Chengxia Fang became the heiloom of She inkstone carving family. They were reported repeatedly on newspapers, central TV stations, and filmed by different film production companies. A family not just famous, but also made major contributions to Huizhou art. Here we invite you to view one of the piece that was carved by Chengxia's studio artists and under the guidance of Qinshu Fang. Total lenth  91 feet long, height  54 inches, and  1.8 inches thick. It took them two years. After this, Qinshu Fang retired and his daughter took over the studio of her father.    Because he stoped carving, his inkstone pieces became very valuable. He sold a small piece to a museum for 18,000 RMB a year ago. No where except his own family collections you can see his pieces now!

      Please scroll to the right to see a complete view, click on the image to see a partial detail.

  3) Sulu Chen --- Same generation as Jianchen Fang. Currently She inkstones are being classified as Cheng (Sulu) style and Fang (Jianchen) style. He is just like Jianchen Fang recorded in all the written books about She inkstones. As famous as he is, he is a loaner. He had a lot of student early in his career. But for the last ten years, he has been working alone. Because of this, his pieces are also worth a lot of money. He does not produce much at all and he has a lot of serious collectors in China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Singapore, and other Asia countries. Eventhough he did not work closely with his students for the last ten years, they in a lot of way actually enriched a lot of his fame. Because no merchants in the local county had any of the students signed their names, they always would tell you any good pieces were by Sulu Chen, because he is recorded in the book. We would like to change this and would like to introduce some of the even younger generations and we see that they are very talented and they will become recognized.

  4) Mingxue -- God son and one of the most talented latest student of Jianchen Fang.

  5)Ke, Guihai -- One of Sulu Chen's student who not just surpassed his teacher but also developed his own style and expanded his own horizan. Even Sulu saids he is the best   now.

  6) Ba, Yongchen -- Oldest student of Sulu Chen. Sulu Chen's landscape were in the same style as Qinshu Fang. The classic realism -- very real and detailed. As you can see, in Yongchen's landscape we see a totally different style. It's like the free hand brush painting, not everything is seen immediately, but full of imagination and the more you look at it, the more you find in the pictures. Not to say that he redefined how She inkstone landscape carving is, he complemented the Chen style or completed the Chen style. He is a very solid classic landscape carver and a very talented artist. We captured some of the drawings that he did on the stones, as this is always the first step of carving. A good drawing and an artist eye is so important to how later they can achieve in stone carvings.

  7)Ke, Congyun --- Jianchen's newest student!

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All the following pieces are perfect ornamental collector's items by Libing and Yonghong, they are all sold. Usually you will never see a same piece again, from here you can also learn to identify the different markings of She inkstone!

Old Mine Eye Brows Mark with Gold Star zyh30 Sold The brows mark can only be seen froom the back, this is one of the two most rare stone. The quality of the stone is immediatly felt from the touching of the hand. Our beautiful Silk Box A bird and a Ruyi (Symbol of Good Luck) 3.25x4.78x0.75	Sold libing04 Wooden Box Peach with Leave -- Symbol of Longevity Fish Egg Mark with Cross Eye Brows Mark, Rare

zhy06 Sold One of the two most  rare stone: Gold Star Jade Belt, as you can see the star marks are just on one of the belt	zyh07 One of the two most rare stone: Eyebrows Mark Stolen	zyh11 Stolen Cross Eyebrows Mark: the brows marks appear in pairs, very rare	zyh12 Stolen Old Mine Water Wave (criss croos by Mi Fu's book) Mark: perfect smooth while appears like water waves rippling

zyh41 Sold One of Two Most Rare Gold Star Jade Belt $150	zyh42 Sold Old Mine Gold Star and Gold Patch $120	zyh43 Sold One of Two Most Rare Gold Star Long Eyebrows Mark $200	zyh16 Rare Old Mine Gold Patch, Old Mine Dragon's Tail stone has very Shining Gold Marks that appear as if floating on the stone: Stolen

zyh56 Sold One of two most Rare Long EyeBrows Mark $180	zyh50 Sold One of Two Most Rare Eyebrows Mark $150	zyh14 Eyebrows Mark: $165 Sold

Recent Sales

Old Mine Dragon's Tail Water Wave Mark with Gold Star, Very Damp by Libing Li Signed Size: 11.5 x 18.2 x 2.54 CM Item jp01 $250 Sold Wt:3 kilos

Old Mine Dragon's Tail Lao Kang Eyebrows Mark, Very Damp by Yonghong Zhang Signed Size: 7.8 x 12.4 x 2.1 CM Item jp07 Sold $180 Wt:2 kilos

Old Mine Dragon's Tail Lao Kang (Chinese for Old Mine) Brush Sweep, Very Damp by Yonghong Zhang Signed Size: 16.25 x 19.5 x 3.2 CM Item jp03 $250 Sold Wt:4 kilos

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