Yi De Ge Refined Ink Juice
Yi De Ge (Beijing), China. 一得閣 精制墨汁. 153 paintings from 2026.04.12 to 2026.06.14, 104 shown here.
The record.
From the registry, rebuilt from Peter's researched material cards. The v2.5 registry: Sichuan high-pigment carbon black with bone glue, glossy black with a slight purple luster, achieves scorched dry ink (焦墨). The 2026-09-30 label read guessed a glue and resin mix; the label would settle it.
Three sources, side by side.
The maker's card, what is typical for this type (a reference, labelled so), and what Peter recorded at the table. Empty means not recorded.
In use.
Its life on the table, among the other inks of the year.
Every photo day.
Each dot a photo day, sized by the paintings made with it. Highlighted: this one.
Where the ink sits on MB4.
Every painting with this ink, cut into the same 72 zones and averaged: the brighter a tile, the more of each zone its paintings inked. 153 paintings. Open it in Visual Mapping.
What V23 read on it.
The mean rung on each ladder for paintings made with it, against the mean across every V23 reading. This mixes the material with the months it was used in; read it as a description only.
Bead: the mean rung on this material across 137 V23 readings. Ring: the mean across all 259. The line between them, and the number at the end, is how far this material sits above (cyan) or below (ember) the archive.
The paintings.
Every painting made with it that this site shows, by date.