Stampeding Horses
Someone recently sent pictures of a carving of stampeding horses asking if the stone was shoushan.
1 April 2017
Talking Seals
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Sgraffito
One kind of decoration often seen on the sides of Chinese seals is a scratched design called sgraffito.
15 March 2017
Collecting Famous Seals
Occasionally a seal will be seen with a signature carved into the side of the stone by a famous Chinese seal artist.
15 January 2017
15 December 2016
AliExpress
I took a quick look today at the China-based website AliExpress to find seal tools or stones.
1 December 2016
Shallow Relief
Seal stones will sometimes come decorated on their sides with shallow relief carving.
15 September 2016
A Great MacGuffin
Someone recently sent information about a small Chinese seal made from carnelian “found lying on open ground in the bush in Dar es Salaam (East Africa) in 1948 and may well have been lying there for many years.”
15 August 2016
It Looks Broken!
An artist friend purchased a seal in China but when she tried it out it looked broken.
1 July 2015