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Asian Auction, Session 1

December 03, 2012

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LOT 329

Lot 329

Rare Documentary Bronze Military Seal, Qing Dynasty

Rare Documentary Bronze Military Seal, Qing Dynasty
Lot 329 Details
Rare Documentary Bronze Military Seal, Qing Dynasty

The rectangular base finely cast with a seventeen-character inscription in seal script, all rising to a tapering cylindrical shaft
4.7" x 3.5" x 2.2" — 12 x 9 x 5.5 cm.
marked ‘qi huncheng lu zhang zhi guan fang lu jun di yi bai shi’

Estimate $1,000-$1,500

Realised: $9,500
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Lot Report

Exhibited:

Bonham’s London, July 11, 2005, lot 83.

Note:

Written in official seal script, the stamp may have been used by the authority for the Commander of the Seventh Mixed Battalion, Frontier Force, First Army. The ‘mixed battalion’ was devised by the the Manchu ruler, Nurhachi (1559-1626) in 1618 after his subjugation of the land bordered the Amur and Tumen rivers.

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