A SIGNED SHOUSHAN GAOSHANDONG SOAPSTONE SQUARE SEAL

18TH CENTURY

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A SIGNED SHOUSHAN GAOSHANDONG SOAPSTONE SQUARE SEAL
18TH CENTURY
Of brownish-grey color, the top finely carved with a foreigner wearing a hat, a short skirted jacket, pantaloons and boots holding a hooked staff as he sprawls atop the cloth-draped back of a recumbent elephant, with a scroll border carved at the top of the block, and the two-character signature, Shangjun, inscribed on one side, the seal face inscribed yan huo shenxian (nourishment of immortals)
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high

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Shangjun is the 'zi' name of Zhou Bin, a native of Zhangzhou in Fujian province, who is believed to have worked during the Kangxi period, and was known for his fine carving, especially of seal finials. For a discussion of Zhou Bin see G. Tsang and H. Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 84-86, where a pair of baifurong seals, no. 43, and a niujiao dong figure of a luohan, no. 44, ascribed to him, are illustrated.

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