Four Treasures of the Study
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Four Treasures of the Study is an expression used to denote the brush, ink, paper and ink stone used in Chinese calligraphy and spread into other East Asian calligraphic traditions. The name appears t
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A highly decorative badger hair brush dating to the Ming Dynasty
An inkstick made in the form of lotus leaves and flowers
A detail from The Treatise on Calligraphy by Sun Guoting (646–691). Ink on Paper.
Inkstick
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Inksticks or ink cakes are a type of solid Chinese ink used traditionally in several Chinese, Japanese, and East Asian art forms such as calligraphy and brush painting. Inksticks are made mainly of so
Four Treasures of the Study
…Four Treasures of the Study is an expression used to denote the brush, ink, paper and ink stone used in Chinese calligraphy and spread into other East Asian calligraphic traditions. The name appears to originate in the time…
Commemorative Chinese inksticks for collectors
Colored inksticks, usually used as accents in Chinese painting
Image from the 17th-century technical document Tiangong Kaiwu (天工開物) detailing how pine is burned in a furnace at one end and its soot collected at the other