Lot 188
SOAPSTONE SQUARE SEAL
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
壽山石雕梅樹紋方章 帶透雕竹林靈芝紋木蓋盒
印文：雪堂羅振玉印
each side finely carved in low relief with a continuous scene of a large prunus tree issuing from mountain rock, the seal front reading 'Xuetang Luozhenyu Yin', with a fitted hardwood box carved with bamboo groves and lingzhi fungus in openwork
Dimensions
the seal: 6.3cm high; the box with stand: 8.8cm high
Footnote
Note: Luo Zhenyu (1866 - 1940), was a Chinese classical scholar, philologist, epigrapher, antiquarian and Qing loyalist. He was one of the first scholars to decipher the oracle bone script, and produced many important scholarly works researching the bronzeware script. He helped publish Liu E's Tieyun Canggui (鐵雲藏龜), the first collection of oracle bones, and Sun Yirang's Qiwen Juli (契文舉例), the first work of decipherment of the oracle bone script.