QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

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A TIANHUANG OVAL SEAL
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The oval seal is surmounted by a finial carved in the form of a recumbent mythical beast with a pair of backward curved horns. The seal face is carved with a five-character inscription in relief, two in a horizontal line, yuci, ‘imperially bestowed’, above three characters in a vertical line, Hanhui yuan, ‘Garden of Intrinsic Radiance’ flanked by a pair of chilong.
1 1/16 in. (4.3 cm.) wide, 42g

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The Hanhui yuan, ‘Garden of Intrinsic Radiance’ was an imperial garden complex in Beijing gifted to the third daughter of the Jiaqing Emperor, the Princess Zhuangjing of the Second Rank (1782-1811) upon her marriage to a Mongol prince.

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