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Ancient Chinese Jade
March 15-29, 2018
122.
AN ARCHAIC WHITE JADE SEAL
Han Dynasty (206 B.C. – A.D. 220)
surmounted by a crouching beast with blunt snout and two long horns, the underside carved in intaglio with a fallen deer, remains of cinnabar red.
Length 7⁄8 inch (2.2 cm)
Compare the jade seal illustrated by Luo (ed.), Gugong bowuyuan cang gu xiyin xuan (Selected Ancient Seals in the Collection of the Palace Museum), Beijing, 1982, p. 89, no. 495.
漢 獸鈕玉印 長2.2厘米
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