J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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Past Exhibition

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 78 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