Bidspirit auction | RARE YIXING SQUARE SEAL WITH

RARE YIXING SQUARE SEAL WITH TURTLE FINIAL, SIGNED YOU QINQING - Ca. Qing Dynasty, Daoguang period, Ca. AD 1820 - 1850 > A square reddish-brown Yixing purple clay seal with a turtle-form knob, the creature modelled with a rounded body and pronounced shell features. With a nine-character seal reading ting song ge Hainan Zhou shi zhi yin (the seal of Zhou of the 'Listen to the Pine Hall' in Hainan). >Exhibited: Sumptuous Elegance: Art of the 18th Century Qing Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17 March-30 June 1992. >Size: 50mm x 40mm; Weight: 140g > Provenance: Prince Collection, 1990s?2014; Ex. John Sparks Ltd., London, 1985. >This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. >