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Lot 3016
A Pair of Chinese Carved Soapstone Seals and Brush Washer
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Includes a pair of tall vertical carved soapstone seals with foo lion group finials of adult with cubs, each inscribed to front, underside with carved seal, and a carved light greenish-tan soapstone brush washer with a mythical beast climbing up the side of the carving, base is a darker grayish-black soapstone carved to imitate a wooden base.

Seals 8 x 2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.; Brush washer 5 3/4 in.

From the Collection of James Lee Burney, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Seals have some chips to edges; each with a larger area of loss at back corner; green felt circles to underside of each; possible repairs to lower area of each; brush washer has a chip with loss to base rabbit.