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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A TIANHUANG OVAL SEAL A CARVED TIANHUANG ‘MYTHICAL BEAST’
REPUBLIC PERIOD SEAL FOR WANG JIQIAN
The oval seal is carved with an irregularly-shaped sloping SIGNED CHEN JULAI (1904-1984), DATED CYCLICAL GENGCHEN
top simulating a rocky hill. The seal face is carved with a ten- YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1940 AND OF THE PERIOD
character inscription in relief taken from a poem composed The square seal is surmounted by a finial carved in the form of a
by the Tang-dynasty poet Liu Changqing. The stone is of a recumbent mythical beast, with an eight-character inscription
reddish-orange tone with some characteristic ‘radish veining’. on the side, gengchen suimo Julai fang Han, ‘Julai imitating the
2 in. (5 cm.) long, box, 105g Han-style at the end of the gengchen year (1940)’. The seal face
is carved with a three-character inscription, Zhuli Guan, ‘Lodge
HK$600,000-800,000 US$78,000-100,000 in the Bamboo Grove’.
1 ¼ in. (3.1 cm.) high, box, 52g
民國 田黃山形印（105克） HK$180,000-260,000 US$24,000-34,000

印文：孤雲將野鶴，豈向人間住 Chen Julai (1904-1984) was a renowned seal carver, calligrapher,
painter and poet. Zhuli Guan is the hall name of Wang Jiqian (C.C.
Wang)(1907-2003), the prominent 20th-century collector of Chinese
paintings. This is one of the several seals that Chen Julai carved for
Wang Jiqian.

民國二十九年（1940）
陳巨來刻田黃瑞獸鈕王季遷自用印（52克）
邊款：庚辰歲莫巨來仿漢
印文：竹里舘
陳巨來（1904-1984），二十世紀著名篆刻家，工詩，擅書法。王己千
(1906-2003)，原名王季遷，為著名畫家、鑒賞家及大收藏家，尤精於中
國古代繪畫及手稿。曾出讓一批藏品予紐約大都會博物館。

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