CHINE, DYNASTIE QING (1644-1911)

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SCEAU EN JADE VERT EPINARD SCULPTE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING (1644-1911)
De section carrée, il est surmonté d'une prise en forme de dragon bicéphale, la gueule ouverte et menaçante, reposant sur les griffes acérées des pattes avant, le corps couvert d'écailles, percé de part en part pour laisser passer un cordon en soie. La base porte une inscription à six caractères ‘Shiquan laoren zhibao’ (Trésor du vieil homme des dix campagnes militaires), faisant allusion à l’Empereur Qianlong (1736-1795).
Dimensions : 12.5 x 10 x 10 cm. (4 7/8 x 3 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.) ; socle

Provenance

Private French collection.

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A SPINACH GREEN JADE 'SHIQUAN LAOREN ZHIBAO' SEAL
CHINA, QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

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Lot Essay

Many seals with the inscription of ‘Shiquan laoren zhibao’ (Treasure of the old man of ten military campaigns) or ‘Shiquan laoren’ (Old man of ten military campaigns) are known to exist since the Qianlong period. It is record thirteen times in the ‘Baosu’ (Treasured seals) anthology compiled since Emperor Qianlong’s reign. The one in the collection of the Taipei Palace Museum is also carved out of spinach green jade with a text on Qianlong’s ten successful military campaigns inscribed on its four sides, and is slightly bigger than the present one. See Imperial Seals of the Ming and the Qing Dynasties, Classics of the Forbidden City, Beijing, 2008, pl. 199. Compare to another sold at Christie’s, London, 12 May 2009, lot 15.

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