Title
Rectangular shoushan seal with dragon design
20th century
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- 傳翁大年刻壽山石博古圖方章
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Date
- 20th century
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- carved qingtian stone
- Dimensions
- 4.6 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Dr John Yu in memory of Dr George Soutter 2020
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 63.2020
- Artist information
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attrib. Weng Danian (Shujun)
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About
The engraved texts on the seal face are the two lines of Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei's 【王維】 poem Tian Yuan Le «田原樂» (Happiness in the wildness).
Shu Jun is the alias of Qing dyansty seal carver Weng Danian, 翁大年(1811-1890), native of Wujiang of Jiangsu, whose style is after Qin and Han dyansty script, and often applies regular script to side inscription.
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Where the work was made
China