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Tools, equipment and utilitarian objects
Ink cake

Ink cake

Ink cake

1760

Medium: Pine soot and animal adhesive
Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 2 3/16 x 11/16in. (11.4 x 5.6 x 1.7cm)
Genre: Tools, equipment and utilitarian objects
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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