Seal Name “Cock and Hen”

Category

肖形印 Xiaoxing Yin Picture Seal

Material

Green serpentine with cream flecking

Impression.

Yang cut. Copulating chickens.

General Description

A pebble seal with shaped top and buff coloured pebble toggle

Notes

Subject pinched from a 2,500 year old Ancient Greek intaglio seal in the British Museum.

Dimensions in millimetres

Height

52 mm

Width

40 mm

Depth

33 mm