QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

The seal face is uncarved. Compare to two Qianlong emperor’s spinach-green jade seals that have inscriptions to both seal face and the sides, surmounted by the same double-dragon finial as present seal, both preserved in the Taipei National Palace Museum, and exhibited in the special exhibition and illustrated by Feng Ming-chu, Emperor Chi’ien-lung’s Grand Cultural Enterprise, Taipei, 2002, p.38, pls. I-20 and I-21 (fig. 1 & fig. 2).