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A SOAPSTONE ‘PHOENIX’ SEAL
Late Qing Dynasty
The seal of square section, carved on the top with
a phoenix amidst wispy, curling clouds, the mythical
bird with finely incised feathers, inscribed in archaic
seal script on the base ‘mo chi qing xing’, which
may be translated as ‘rising pure from the ink pool’
the stone of mottled yellow, red and orange with (underside)
dark blue striations.
7cm (2 6/8in) high.

£3,000 - 4,000
CNY27,000 - 35,000

清晚期 石雕鳳鈕方章
印文「墨池清興」

Provenance: an English private collection

來源：英國私人收藏

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A SOAPSTONE BOULDER
Signed Shiqing (1924-2013), 20th century
One side finely carved with a group of bearded
sages gazing at a scroll, beneath a gnarled pine tree
and rockwork, a pavillion in the distance, the reverse
with calligraphic inscription, the stone of lustrous
amber tone.
10cm (3 7/8in) high. (reverse detail)
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000 (underside)
二十世紀 壽山石薄意雕松下高士擺件

The boulder is inscribed:

‘北山白雲裡，隱者自怡悅，石卿作’

Which may be translated as:

‘Northern mountains amidst white clouds,
the hermit alone is joyous. By Shiqing’

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