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Click Image for a Photo Gallery of the 9 Dragon Inkstone
by Cong Ke
Huge 85 x 75 x 10 CM
33.5 x 29.50 x 4 inches
Carvings are more than 2 inches Deep
9 Live dragons
Way too heavy to get a good lighting for our picture
Actual Color: Flawless Black with Gold Patches
Stunning Beauty and Very Rare to Have such a big She Inkstone!
This work was just featured in the interview with Anhui TV station and broadcastered in July, 2001

No wonder Cong Ke calls his workshop in the mountain: Hidden Dragon Studio
and this name was used way before Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon came out!

It's time for us to introduce Cong Ke in detail to our collectors. Born in Da Guyun mountain in 1970. Studied wood carving with his father since he was 16 years old. In the eighties when She county's inkstone industry was very prosperous, Cong Ke was hired by two very well known arts and crafts factories as carving masters. He was the first one came out of the mountain to become professional carvers. Because of him, many others followed, like Guihai Ke, Xianhua Ye, Congyun Ke, and De Shen who died in the bus accident. Cong Ke became very well known to inkstone dealers when his inkstone carvings were collected and  published in Taiwan magazines in 1992. In 1995,  part of his collective work was exhibited at Yi Hai Studio in Tunxi Lao Jie and was broadcastered by Anhui TV station. When inkstone collecting was at it's pinnacle point in 1995, some of his most fine work were sold for more than ten thousand American dollars at the twice a year annual commerce show in Guangzhou. At that time, China just opened it's door economically, all these old traditional crafts were very much appreciated by the Chinese descendants in Hong Kong, Singapore, ...
He is one of the rare carvers who really combines a lot of the Hui traditional brick carving, deep carving, hollow carving, ..... technique into one. All these years living a humble and simple life with his wife and son in the mountain, he definitely formed his own unique style and very much appreciated by our viewers!

Click here to see some of the affordable inkstones he carved especially for our art community