Vintage Chinese Sumi Ink Stick With Embossed Landscape Metallic Mountains 3" Tsutsugaki This large 51" by 52"

This large 51" by 52" piece has various indigo and green dyes which were applied using a paste resist printing process known as tsutsugaki to create these designs

This 18th century portable calligraphy tansu has three drawers and a lidded top section

A very auspicious motif called Shochikubai

In this set of five plates each one is unique

This is an antique Japanese mid Meiji Era (c

Vintage Chinese Sumi Ink Stick With Embossed Landscape Metallic Mountains 3" Tsutsugaki This large 51" by 52"Thisis a Vintage Chinese ink stick used to make sumi ink for calligraphy and painting. Embossed with a mountain temple scene on the front and back painted in gold, copper, bronze, silver, red, blue and green. The scenery is labeled in traditional Chinese with "Wenshu Monistery" and "Yu Ping Peak". Chinese ink is some of the best ink in the world for calligraphy. To make ink pour a small amount of water on to the high flat part of a slate ink stone