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3617 Seal face 印面
A SPINACH-GREEN JADE
‘DRAGON’ SEAL
QING DYNASTY, JIAQING PERIOD
of square form, surmounted by a ferocious
dragon powerfully worked in meticulous precision
with bulging eyes and flaring nostrils above
long curling whiskers, the scaly, tightly coiled
body depicted crouching on its haunches with
a ‘flaming pearl’ below its jaws and surrounded
by dense cloud swirls, the scales and flowing
mane finely incised with its long tail coiled at the
rear, the seal face deeply and crisply worked
with the characters reading Yunri xiang huiying
(‘clouds and the sun illuminate each other’), the
stone of a deep olive-green colour flecked with
characteristic black speckles
7 by 4.2 by 4.2 cm, 2¾ by 1⅝ by 1⅝ in.
HK$ 3,000,000-4,000,000
US$ 387,000-520,000
清嘉慶 嘉慶帝御寶碧玉雲龍鈕璽
印文：雲日相暉映
Seal impression 印文
Impression from The Jiaqing Baosou
《嘉慶寶藪》內之印文
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