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Four various small seals
Comprising one grey jade seal carved with a mythical two-horned
beast, the body decorated with archaistic scrolls, Ming dynasty; one
yellowish-green jade seal with dark russet inclusions carved with a
bird with raised head and spreading its wings, 18th/19th century; a
bronze seal cast with an elegant horse lying with head resting on its
raised left foreleg and an incised inscription on one side, probably
Qing dynasty; and an ivory double-seal carved as a tree trunk, 18th
century. The largest 4cm (1½in) wide (3).
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$62,000 - 100,000 CNY49,000 - 79,000
灰玉雕獸鈕/青玉雕鳥鈕/銅馬鈕/象牙雕樹形印章四件
Provenance: the grey jade ‘mythical beast’ seal acquired from Roger
Keverne Ltd., London, on 2nd December 1998; the jade ‘bird’ seal
acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., London, on 25th November 1988;
the bronze ‘horse’ seal acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., London,
on 11th October 1990; the ivory seal acquired from Spink & Son,
London, 18th September 1990.
A European private collection
來源：灰玉印章於1998年12月2日購於倫敦古董商Roger Keverne；
青玉、銅及象牙印章分別於1988年11月25日、1990年10月11日及
1990年9月18日購於倫敦Spink & Son Ltd.
歐洲私人收藏
The grey jade seal reads bajiu wenyue (把酒問月), meaning ‘asking
the moon with wine in hand’, which may be related to the name of
the poem of the renowned Tang Dynasty poet, Li Bai.
The bronze seal reads yilou (倚樓), meaning ‘leaning the building’.
The yellowish-green jade seal reads zisun shibao (子孫世寶), meaning
‘the precious treasure for sons and grandsons’.
The ivory seal reads shouzhuo (守拙) and ren yi xin wei tian (人以
信為天), meaning ‘be honest and poor’ and ‘credibility as the first
necessity of the people’ respectively.

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