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A FINE TIANHUANG ‘HORSE’ SEAL
Signed Shiman, cyclically dated to Wuwu year, corresponding to The incised inscription to the side reads Fa Wutianxi Jigong Jie Wuwu
1918 and of the period Xia Wuyue Xizan Ke 法吳天璽紀功碣戌午夏五月師曼刻, which may
The square seal carved to the face with four seal script characters be translated as ‘carved by Shiman in the style of Wu Tianxi Jigong, in
reading ‘Chen Liu Zhi yin’, incised to one side with further five lines the fifth month of Maowu year during summer’. Shiman 師曼 appears
of seal script characters, surmounted by a finial in the form of a to be one of the courtesy names used by Tan Xizan 譚錫瓚 (b.1867), a
recumbent horse with bent forelegs, detailed with manes and a seal carver from Hunan Province, active from the late Qing dynasty to
swaying tail. the early Republic period.
4.2cm (1 5/8in) high.
The characters carved on the seal face of the present lot suggest the
£6,000 - 8,000 seal was once in the possession of Chen Liu 陳瀏 (1863-1929), also
CNY53,000 - 71,000 known by his studio name as Jiyuanshou 寂園叟. Chen Liu was a
renowned ceramics connoisseur active from the late Qing dynasty to
the early Republic period, and known to have compiled Tao Ya (匋雅),
戊午年（1918年） 田黃石馬鈕「陳瀏之印」章 an early survey dedicated to the study of Chinese ceramics published
「法吳天璽紀功碣戌午夏五月師曼刻」篆書刻款 in 1906.

Provenance: an English private collection

來源： 英國私人收藏

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