China Chinese Song Sung Pink Stone Inkstone Ex. Nicholas Grindley ca 960-1279 AD

Description

Extremely RARE CHOICE Example of a China Chinese Song Sung Dynasty Carved Pink Stone Inkstone ca. 960-1279 AD. The inkstone measures 6 3/8 inches long and weighs about 1 1/2 pounds with some scattered chips along the edges and fissures in the stone and a restored chip at the rounded end. These inkstones are usually found in an archaeological context burial site and the surface of the stone seems to scattered with evidence of such burial. Comes in a fitted silk dragon decor box with a Nicholas Grindley stock label on verso of the inkstone.
Who is Nicholas Grindley? He is a very well know art dealer and here is some info about him. he
was born in England in 1951. For over 40 years now he has been dealing and researching Chinese art with particular interest in furniture and works of art. During most of this time he has conducted his business as a private dealer although since 1998 he has published two catalogues a year, and exhibited in London, New York and Hong Kong; many works from these exhibitions and his other dealing activities are in museums and private collections through-out the world. In 1996 he contributed to the catalogue of the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection of Chinese Furniture and in 1999 he co-wrote with Robert Jacobsen the catalogue of Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In 2004 he wrote the catalogue for the collection of Dr. Ignazio Vok that was exhibited at the Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst in Cologne. In 2007 he contributed the entry on Chinese furniture for, ‘The Seventy Wonders of China,’ published by Thames & Hudson. He is asked by museums in the US and Europe to advise on the acquisition, disposal, cataloging and re-attribution of Chinese furniture in their collections. He continues to deal privately in Chinese art.