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A PAIR OF SOAPSTONE ‘LION’ SEALS MADE FOR YUAN SHIKAI
SIGNED YUECHENG, DATED CYCLICAL YIMAO YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1915 AND OF THE
PERIOD
Each square seal is surmounted by a lion accompanied by two cubs. One seal is incised
on the side with an inscription reading ‘Respectfully made by Zhang Yin of Xinhe’, and
the seal face reading ‘The Imperial seal of Yuan from Xiangcheng’; the other seal bears an
inscription on the side reading ‘In Han style by Yuecheng in the spring of yimao year’, and
the seal face reading ‘The seal of Weiting’.
4 Õ/”ÿ in. (11 cm.) high, 282.5 g and 288.6 g, box (2)
HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-38,000
Weiting is the pseudonym of Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), who is from Xiangcheng in Henan
province. Hence the seal faces and inscriptions on the current pair of seals indicate that these
were made for Yuan Shikai by the renowned master Zhang Yuecheng (1883-1961), who made
seals for numerous important figures from the late Qing to Republic period including Puyi, Duan
Qirui, Wu Peifu, Feng Yuxiang, and Bai Chongxi.
民國乙卯（1915年）
張樾丞刻壽山石獅鈕袁世凱用印一對（282.5克、288.6克）
印文：慰庭印信，邊款：乙卯春樾丞倣漢
印文：項城袁氏之璽，邊款：新河張蔭敬篆
袁世凱（1859 － 1916），字慰庭，號容庵，河南項城縣人，故又稱袁項城。
張樾丞（1883-1961），名福蔭，以字行，1909 年，經寶熙引薦，為清朝末代皇帝溥儀製作「宣
統御筆」、「宣統御覽之寶」、「無逸齋精鑒璽」等八枚印。溥儀在宮中於不少名畫上鈐蓋印章，
全是張樾丞所治的這八枚。民國初年，張樾丞為歷任北洋政府首腦治印，如段祺瑞、朱啟矜、陸
征祥、唐紹儀、黃郛、吳佩孚、曹汝霖等人。後來，張樾丞也為馮玉祥、胡景翼、張宗昌、商震、
白崇禧、黃紹翃、王陵基等民國將領治過印。1949 年受周恩來委託，刻製了著名的「中華人民共
和國中央人民政府之印」。
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