2 Chinese ink sticks in the shape of pillars donated by Willard McCarty, 1970s

File

Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/8/7/3/4

Scope and Contents

Ink stick 1 on top has the maker’s designation 徽歙堯千氏監,製, on one side the Chinese characters 曹素功監製, and on the other 法龍 in gold letters, with a dragon entwined underneath around the pillar.

Ink stick 2 has a hole through the top for hanging, and the Chinese characters 松友齋周永[寧]監製 written on it.

Dates

Creation: 1970s

Extent

2 object(s) : Ink.

Language of Materials

Chinese

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The sticks were donated by Willard McCarty (Professor Emeritus, King’s College London) in March 2018. In an email he wrote 'They were given to me by a Confucian scholar named Charles Leong [Wing Leong] in the early 1970s in Portland, Oregon. When I met him, he had retired from a 30-year job in the US Postal Service. We would meet frequently in those days and he would teach me about traditional Chinese culture.'