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(US$13,000-20,000)
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A SQUARE TIANHUANG SEAL
17TH CENTURY
Finely carved with a recumbent coiled mythical beast, the bovine head with two curved horns, the body incised to simulate fur and with a long bushy tail, atop a square seal, decorated around the top of the square pedestal with a frieze of key-fret against a diaper-ground carved in shallow relief, the stone of honey tones with orange-yellow hues (corners polished)
1 in. (2.3 cm.) square, box
17TH CENTURY
Finely carved with a recumbent coiled mythical beast, the bovine head with two curved horns, the body incised to simulate fur and with a long bushy tail, atop a square seal, decorated around the top of the square pedestal with a frieze of key-fret against a diaper-ground carved in shallow relief, the stone of honey tones with orange-yellow hues (corners polished)
1 in. (2.3 cm.) square, box
(US$13,000-20,000)