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Subject:JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: GABatGH Mon, Feb 13, 2017 IP: 2601:0989:4100:088d: Many years ago my wife's father handed me an item and asked me to identify it for him. I've been searching for years, online and off line, and finally I found out what it is. |
Subject:Re: JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: rat Tue, Feb 14, 2017 These nested seals are fun, but they are not meant to be applied to lamps, rather to be used as one's individual seals on calligraphy, paintings, or letters perhaps. They are more of a scholar's plaything or object to put on one's desk than a functional seal though. Nested seals are normally Qing or Ming in date. |
Subject:Re: JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: Paul Wed, Feb 15, 2017 Thanks for the reply. |
Subject:Re: JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: rat Thu, Feb 16, 2017 Ming dynasty: 1368-1644 AD |
Subject:Re: JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: Corey Mon, Feb 20, 2017 Spot on! I finally learned the correct term for this type of seal. "Nested seals". Good to know that they should sell in the thousands if genuinely old. I posted one of these earlier on this board (see link), but got zero qualified opinons about it. It was by the way purchased from a private Chinese Ebay seller for around 100 bucks plus shipping and was dated to the 18-19 century, which I assume is a correct dating, even though no one here was able to translate the script, which would otherwise have been a helpfull assistance in the process of authentication. But the fact that it is made in a higher grade pebble material is a good indication of age in my opinion. So this is another example that it is still possible to find genuine antiques in China for small money and also on Ebay, even though it's risky business. You made my day! And my apologies for interrupting you guys conversation. |
Subject:Re: JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: Corey Tue, Feb 21, 2017 Link didn't show. New try: |
Subject:Re: JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: rat Tue, Feb 21, 2017 price still depends on quality, rarity, and competition of course... |
Subject:Re: JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: Paul Mon, Feb 20, 2017 Here's three pictures that show that vase with matching pictures of my box. |
Subject:Re: JIAQING PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHY SEAL VASE STAMP
Posted By: rat Tue, Feb 21, 2017 Wow, thanks so much for taking the time to match all these up for me Paul, nicely done, and you are absolutely right that they are the same design. I can see why you concluded that the seals relate to this vase. Yet I don't believe that your seals made the marks on the vase, for two reasons: your photographs show that the seals and their impressions are identical, whereas all functioning seals are carved in reverse (ie as a mirror image of the imprint they produce). (And if you had reversed the photographs of the seal impressions to make them easier for me and others to read, your photograph of the seals accompanied by the quarter would have shown the quarter to have been reversed as well, which is not the case.) Also, I suspect that the marks on the vase were created with a rubber rather than a cast metal seal, as metal seals would be difficult to apply to the vase successfully without causing some scratching/impressions to the body. While the vase and the seal faces share a common design, I don't think the seals were used to stamp the vase. |
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