A gilt silver sash hanging for a symbolic seal - image-1

Lot 1197 Dα

A gilt silver sash hanging for a symbolic seal

Auction 1093 - overview Brussels
18.06.2017, 14:00 - China - Decorative Arts, Ceramics and Porcelain
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €

A gilt silver sash hanging for a symbolic seal

Hanging from a long chain ornamented with peaches and a three-legged toad, the seal itself in a box resting in a fence-like enclosure, to the ouside the characters reading fu ren zhang yin (Seal of the wife of a high ranking official), to the seal itself the character yin (seal).
Length ca. 29.5 cm

Literature

Compare: Margret Duda, Four Centuries of Silver. Personal Adornment in the Qing Dynasty and After, Singapore/Chicago 2002, p. 145, fig. 20