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A Brush That Took Two Years
Xu Huarong is China's only recognized intangible-heritage transmitter for chicken-wolf-hair brushes, a technique tracing back to Su Dongpo's exile. This one took two years to finish.
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A Shape Borrowed From an Imperial Academy
The Biyong inkstone's round form, set inside an octagonal frame, copies the shape of a Han-dynasty imperial academy — moated on every side, round as a jade disc.
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Stone That Aged Like Tea
A square Duan-stone inkstone made from quarry stock Baoputang had set aside since the 1960s — and a craft divided between two pairs of hands, sixty years apart.