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  • seal This post has image ( China & Japan ) - Khytryi Roman - Mar 19, 2021 (02:41 PM)
    • Re: seal - Mark Adams - Mar 20, 2021 (12:24 PM)
    • Re: seal - I.Nagy - Mar 20, 2021 (09:07 PM)
      • Re: seal - mikeoz - Mar 21, 2021 (05:58 AM)
        • Re: seal - I.Nagy - Mar 21, 2021 (07:07 PM)
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Subject:seal
Posted By: Khytryi Roman Fri, Mar 19, 2021 IP: 2a02:1811:d8f:2800:1

Hello, please help me determine what it is and what year it was made?







Subject:Re: seal
Posted By: Mark Adams Sat, Mar 20, 2021

It's a seal. Made from Soapstone for the tourist market. Decorative value only.
Mark@imperial

Subject:Re: seal
Posted By: I.Nagy Sat, Mar 20, 2021

Reading of seal,
何問徳 - ca. How to call someone to account on virtue
Side inscriptions,
Encircled character,
福 - Happiness
Poem,
照影池邊
多少愁
往來重見
此塘秋
There is some sorrow by the side of a shadowy pool
I see again the coming and going of autumn from the dyke

It is a citation from the poem titled "South Pool" by Zhào Gŭ (806-?) Tang Dynasty poet.

My tentative reading of colophon,
同仿古計仁冽作 - Identical to antiques, cut by
Jì Rénlié

It looks like a relatively new cut.

With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: seal
Posted By: mikeoz Sun, Mar 21, 2021

From the general style of design and carving, I suggest this is a name seal, possibly carved in a tourist market environment.

The name I see is He QiDe. 何啓德

Subject:Re: seal
Posted By: I.Nagy Sun, Mar 21, 2021

Dear Mikeoz,
You are righ; 何啓徳 
(In turn, it was not so easy to find out the proper English translation of my incorrect version "何問徳")
I.Nagy


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