If you were a Chinese scholar in the ... brushes for calligraphy, a Bitong (a brush pot) to put your brushes in, and an ink stone to grind up ink. These pots are quite difficult to date accurately ...

The nearly 1,000-year-old ink painting ... rare,” Jonathan Stone, deputy chairman for Christie’s Asian art department, said. In 2010, Dizhuming, a Chinese calligraphy scroll by Huang Tingjian ...