A LARGE CHINESE SOAPSTONE 'MOUNTAIN' SEAL

£250 - £350 £250

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Naturalistically formed as a mountain, carved to one side with trees and dwellings dispersed around a rocky cliff, with inscriptions to both sides, inscribed with a date for winter of the first year of the Tongzhi Emperor's reign (1862) and with a signature reading Chen Yizeng, the underside carved with seal script characters, 12cm wide.

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.

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