
Stampeding Horses
Someone recently sent pictures of a carving of stampeding horses asking if the stone was shoushan.
Someone recently sent pictures of a carving of stampeding horses asking if the stone was shoushan.
One kind of decoration often seen on the sides of Chinese seals is a scratched design called sgraffito.
Occasionally a seal will be seen with a signature carved into the side of the stone by a famous Chinese seal artist.
I took a quick look today at the China-based website AliExpress to find seal tools or stones.
Seal stones will sometimes come decorated on their sides with shallow relief carving.
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.”
An artist friend purchased a seal in China but when she tried it out it looked broken.