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Vintage Chinese Green & Brown Jadeite Serpentine Foo Dog Chop Seal

About the Item

PRESENTING A STUNNING and RARE Vintage Chinese Green & Brown Jadeite Serpentine Foo Dog Chop Seal. Hong Kong/Chinese, circa 1950. A fantastically carved Foo Dog in a contorted form, hand-carved from a single piece of mottled green, brown and white jadeite. Initially, we thought this was made of marble, but then we realized that marble is a very porous rock and would absorb any ink that would be used for stamping the seal on the base. Clearly, marble would not be suitable for that purpose and when we compared the piece to ‘jadeite’ it was obvious that it was made of jadeite. Seal on the base. Really nice size. Bought by a Dallas Private Collector in Hong Kong/China in the 1970’s. A seal, in an East and Southeast Asian context, is a general name for printing stamps and impressions thereof which are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring acknowledgement or authorship. In the western world they were traditionally known by traders as chop marks or simply chops. The process started in China and soon spread across East Asia. China, Japan and Korea currently use a mixture of seals and hand signatures, and, increasingly, electronic signatures. In modern Japan, most people have several inkan. A "Certificate of Authenticity" is required for any hanko used in a significant business transaction. Registration and certification of an inkan may be obtained in a local municipal office (e.g., city hall). There, a person receives a “certificate of seal impression” known as inkan toroku shomei-sho . The increasing ease with which modern technology allows hanko fraud is beginning to cause some concern that the present system will not be able to survive. Signatures are not used for most transactions, but in some cases, such as signing a cell phone contract, they may be used, sometimes in addition to a stamp from a mitome-in. For these transactions, a jitsuin is too official, while a mitome-in alone is insufficient, and thus signatures are used. Jadeite is a hard, extremely tough, rare mineral of the clinopyroxene family of minerals. Though highly variable in color, it is typically apple-green to emerald-green, or less commonly white or white with spots of green.

Dimensions:

Height: 5 in (12.7 cm)Width: 4 in (10.16 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)

Style:

Meiji (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Jade,Serpentine,Hand-Carved

Place of Origin:

China

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1930-50

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Very good. One chipped ear, otherwise very good.

Seller Location:

Dallas, TX

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU3978120882202

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