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3616 Seal face 印面
Seal impression 印文
AN IMPORTANT CELADON JADE
‘DRAGON’ SEAL
QING DYNASTY, SHUNZHI PERIOD

the substantial stone of square form, surmounted
by a superbly worked dragon crouching on its
four legs and its tail coiled behind, the muscular
body powerfully rendered in openwork with a
curved knopped spine and cross-hatched scales,
the head detailed with large bulging eyes below
thick brows, above flaring nostrils and a square
jaw, surmounted by a pair of long horns sprung
to the back with a flowing mane, the seal face
worked with a border enclosing a four-character
inscription reading Zhi Huanghou bao (‘Treasure
of Empress Zhi’), followed by an inscription in
Manchu script, the stone of an even celadon
colour veined with russet-brown inclusions
13.6 by 13.8 by 13.8 cm, 5⅜ by 5⅜ by 5⅜ in.

PROVENANCE
Collection of Sir George Sheppard Murray (d.
1928), Managing Director of the Mercantile Bank
of India in Singapore, acquired in c.1900, and
thence by descent, by repute.
Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 13th November 2013,
lot 96.

HK$ 3,000,000-4,000,000
US$ 387,000-520,000

清順治 青玉直皇后玉寶
印文：直皇后寶

來源：
傳 George Sheppard Murray 爵士（1928年
卒）收藏。George Sheppard Murray 爵士
原為新加坡有利銀行董事總經理，此璽約於
1900入藏，後於家族傳承
英國威力士2013年11月13日，編號96

96 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比