A group of scholar's objectsIncluding a hardwood box of rounded rectangular section raised on four small feet protruding from a foot rim; the second an arching hardwood wrist rest with gilt and silver alloy wire inlay decoration to the convex exterior side; the third a teardrop shaped duan ink stone undercut in smoke and dragon decoration along one edge of the top side, the underside displaying pendulous 'eyes' descending from within the matrix of the stone, enclosed in a hardwood base and lid, the partially effaced gilt decoration to the top reading Duanzhou Mingyan and seal reading Zhaoqing; the fourth a cylindrical hardwood brush pot incised in white to the exterior in an eight stanza poem and bearing a signature reading Yizhong Jin with seal Yizhong and bearing a jiwei year cyclical date [equivalent to 1979].
9 1/8in (23cm) length of wrist rest (4).