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Size: 1.5×1.5×3.4cm；W14g

Signed and dated: Kangxi Period，Qing Dynasty

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 500,000

The stone is in bright brownish orange colour. The top of the square seal is finely carved with a recumbent foreigner holding a staff on a draped cloth atop a recumbent elephant with its head turned to the left. The cubic base of the seal is nicely polished to give a flat surface. One side is finely inscribed with two characters “Yuxuan“ who is a famous artist in early Qing Dynasty particularly specialising in stone carving. Another side is later inscribed by Zhang Daqian who was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese painter of the twentieth century.
Provenance
A Taiwan Private Collection