Asian Art II - 28th July 2021
Lot 792
A LARGE CHINESE SOAPSTONE 'MOUNTAIN' SEAL
Estimate £250 - £350 | Hammer £250
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Description
A LARGE CHINESE SOAPSTONE 'MOUNTAIN' SEAL
LATE QING DYNASTY
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.