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A PAIR OF INSCRIBED SOAPSTONE SEALS 清光緒戊子年（1888）
吳昌碩篆刻壽山石龔心釗自用對章
WITH TORTOISE-FORM FINIALS
來源
SIGNED WU CHANGSHUO, DATED GUANGXU CYCLICAL WUZI 槐安居，日本神奈川縣
YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1888 AND OF THE PERIOD
著錄
Both columnar seals are surmounted by a tortoise-form finial, one 高峰氏(編)，《槐安居》，東京大東文化協助出版，2008年

bears with an inscription on a vertical side incorporating the date 印文：心釗私印；仲勉

and a signature, Kutie, the pseudonym of Wu Changshuo, and a 邊款：石質太劣，刻未能佳，仲勉法家以為然否? 戊子四月苦鐵記

four-character inscription on the seal face, Xinzhao siyin, ‘personal 吳昌碩（1844-1927），晚清民國時期重要畫家、書法家、篆刻家，多別
號，常見者有老蒼、大聾、苦鐵等。龔心釗（1870-1949），字懷希，號
seal of Xinzhao’. The seal face of the other is carved in relief with 仲勉，齋名瞻麓齋，安徽合肥人，晚清外交官，著名文物收藏家，其多
數藏品由其後人捐贈上海市文物管理委員會，現藏上海博物館。
a two-character inscription, Zhongmian, the pseudonym of Gong

Xinzhao.

1 √ in. (4.9 cm.) high (2)

HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000

PROVENANCE

Kaiankyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

LITERATURE

Ed. Takamine, Kaiankyo, a stitched-bound 3-volume anthology of
the seal collection of Takashima Kikujiro, printed with the support
of Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, 2008

Gong Xinzhao (1870-1949) was a late Qing dynasty scholar-official,
diplomat and an important collector of Chinese paintings and works of
art. The majority of Gong’s collection was donated by his descendants
to the Shanghai municipal in 1960 and are now in the collection of the
Shanghai Museum.

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