From The Collections of Mrs. Alice Marie Hazell, Reached the wonderful age of 81 being born in 1935-2017. She was the spouse of the late victor Hazell together they had traveled the world together they enjoyed visiting museums and later became employed by several smaller museums, Victor Hazell was placed in charge of procuring many of the items for the various museums, while his specialties were bronzes he developed a passion for jade and porcelain items. In the early stages in his career he found that he could find items of great value that the museums had no room for or had similar items in their inventory. Having the resources to date and value the items he found became a real serendipity for him, it started out as a few collectables to a full-scale collection. With the sale of these collectibles it is hoped for that another private collector will add these treasures to their portfolio and treasure them as much as Victor did. The Collections of Mrs. Alice Marie Hazell presented and offered up to auctions from Lot-181 through Lot-208.
An unusual scholar?s duan ink stone displays a faux wood grain motif and figure, grinding area and space for pooling ink. A 3-toed dragon resides in the top left corner. This stone is quite tall and sits atop a custom fitted Hongmu stand which bears a meander pattern representing the water needed to create the liquid ink. The stone has been repaired on the left side. Daoguang reign mark is visible, Qing Dynasty.