A finely-carved Shoushan seal attributed to Wang Daxin 壽山石印章 署名王大炘

The tall vertical seal of square section, the mottled grey and russet stone carved at the top with two toads under a lotus leaf, pursuing a beetle, the side inscribed “Wei Shuo Xun You Zu Yi Qing”（未說尋徑足已輕） dated to a wushen year, equivalent to 1908, “Daxin”, the seal face with same inscription "Wei Shuo Xun You Zu Yi Qing" in seal characters.  
H: 5 in.

Provenance

Property from a private Vermont collection, acquired prior to September 2000

來源：
佛爾蒙特州私人收藏，入藏於2000年9月之前