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PROPERTY FROM THE HOSOKAWA FAMILY COLLECTION
細川家族珍藏
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A PAIR OF CHICKEN BLOOD SOAPSTONE 清 鷄血石謝靈運詩句閑章一對
SEALS 展覽

QING DYNASTY (1644-1911) 熊本縣立美術館，熊本，《高雅な文人の世界：明清の絵画
Both with irregular rounded tops, the greyish-caramel tone と書跡文房具》，1992 年 10 月 9 日 -11 月 8 日，圖錄圖版
suffused with brilliant crimson-red inclusions; one seal face is 77 號
carved in relief with a five-character inscription from a poem by
Xie Lingyun (385-433) reading youdu lai qinming, ‘drawn to the
sound of qin in solitude’, the other with a five-character inscription
in intaglio from another poem by the same poet reading shangshui
han qinghui, ‘clarity of light amid the landscapes’.
2¬ in. (6.7 cm.) high, Japanese wood box (2)
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000
EXHIBITED seal faces
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Kōga 印面
na bunjin no sekai : Min Shin no kaiga to shoseki bunbōgu I (The
Exhibition of Hosokawa Morisada Collection), 9 October-8
November 1992, Catalogue no. 77

impressions
印文

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