Details A PAINTED ENAMEL HEXAGONAL INKWELL AND COVERQING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURYThe inkwell is decorated on each side with either a landscape or riverscape scene featuring figures in different pursuits, and flanked by a gilt-bronze dragon handle to one side. The funnel-shaped cover is decorated with three archaistic dragons around the central aperture.3 1/2 in. (9 cm.) wide across handle Provenance The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection Literature M. Gillingham, Chinese Painted Enamels: an exhibition held in the [Ashmolean Museum] Department of Eastern Art, Oxford, 1978, p. 30, cat. no 29 (Fig. 1) Exhibited Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Chinese Painted Enamels, An Exhibition held in the Department of Eastern Art, June-July 1978 Conditions of sale