清 銅鎏金蟠龍鈕長方印

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英文品名：A GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR SEAL WITH COILED-DRAGON KNOB, QING DYNASTY 尺寸：L:8cm;W:6cm;H:6cm 此印為銅鎏金質，印臺呈長方形，印鈕鏤雕蟠龍蟠踞狀，姿態雄健，鱗爪宛然。通體鎏金雖有磨損，仍見金華內蘊。印面陽文篆書九字，分三行排布，字口峻深，刀痕爽利。銅質細膩，包漿古厚，為清代文房篆印雅物。璽印為古人徵信之物，先秦以銅鑄、玉琢，秦漢以降官印、私印並盛。文人書齋以印章鈐於書畫、藏書、法帖之上，或作鑑藏、或作閒章。印鈕之制，宋元以來有鼻鈕、瓦鈕、龜鈕、獅鈕、龍鈕諸式，蟠龍鈕取威靈鎮邪之意，亦便於握持。清代文房印多以青田、壽山石為之，銅鎏金者多取漢印遺制，於書畫鑑藏外，亦作案頭清供。 This rectangular gilt-bronze seal is surmounted by a finely cast coiled-dragon knob crouching with powerful claws and detailed scales. The gilding shows natural wear while retaining a warm lustre. The seal face bears nine relief seal-script characters arranged in three vertical columns, crisply carved. The bronze body has a rich patina, making it a refined scholar's desk object of the Qing period. Seals served as personal credentials from early times, cast in bronze or carved in jade. In the scholar's studio they were pressed onto paintings, books and albums as collector's or leisure seals. Knobs evolved through nose, tile, tortoise, lion and dragon forms; a coiled-dragon knob carried an aura of guardianship and was easy to hold. Qing studio seals were usually of Qingtian or Shoushan stone; gilt-bronze examples followed Han models and served both as collectors' seals and as desk ornaments.

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