A RARE PAIR OF OVERLAY GLASS SQUARE SEALS

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE PAIR OF OVERLAY GLASS SQUARE SEALS
18th Century
Each semi-opaque white square seal with canted shoulders made to imitate jade, and the thick overlay of mottled orangy-red color on one and orangy-brown color on the other made in imitation of realgar or another stone and well carved with three chilong of varying size, each base carved with a different four-character seal
2 7/16in. (6.2cm.) square, box (2)

Lot Essay

The characters on one seal read, Zhi Ji Jin Du and on the other, Su Qin Wang Bao

For a hardstone prototype refer to the Ming soapstone seal carved with entwined dragons included by Bo Gyllensvärd in the exhibition, Chinese Art from the Collection of H. M. King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, The Asia Society, 1966, Catalogue, no. 83

Previously sold in these rooms, December 3, 1992, lot 13