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A SOAPSTONE SEAL PROVENANCE 清十八世紀 壽山石雕胡人臥象
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY, Collection of Hosokawa Morisada (1912-2005). 鈕閒章
SIGNED SHANGJUN
EXHIBITED 《尚均》款
of rectangular form, finely carved to the top Hosokawa Morisada Collection ten I – Kougana
with a foreigner resting on a patterned cloth bunjinno sekai – Minshinno kaiga to shoseki, 印文：
atop a recumbent elephant with its head bunbougu [Morisada Hosokawa collection 非為無益之事又安能悅有涯之生
turned to the right, all above a narrow band of exhibition I – The elegant world of the literati
confronting archaistic dragons against a ground – Paintings, calligraphy and scholar objects in
of chevrons, the seal face carved in baiwen Ming and Qing dynasty], Kumamoto Prefectural 來源
style with fourteen characters reading feiwei Museum of Art, Kumamoto, 1992, cat. no. 71. 細川護貞（1912-2005）收藏
wuyi zhishi you anneng yue youya zhisheng 展覽
(without the leisure pursuits, how can one enjoy LITERATURE 《細川護貞コレクション展 I：高雅な文
life), the stone of a soft caramel-yellow color Hosokawa Morisada, Ittokuroku [Wisdom in 人の世界―明清の絵画と書跡．文房具》
accentuated with specks of cinnabar pieces], Tokyo, 1982, pl.4.
Height 3½ in., 8.8 cm ，熊本縣立美術館，熊本市，1992年，
$ 20,000-30,000 編號71
出版
細川護貞，《一得録》，東京，1982年，
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