White jade nose button “ADF [0553]” print

[White jade nose button “ADF [0553]” print]

White jade nose button “ADF [0553]” print, Warring States Period, printing face 1.6 × 1.6 cm, 1.3 cm in height
Private printing during the Warring States Period, made of white jade, with a nose button, a side bar with a negative line on the printing surface, and the font of the printing is ancient Chinese characters of the Warring States Period, white characters, and the words “ADF [0553]” read horizontally from the right. This printed jade has a bluish white color, a simple and elegant luster, a warm and delicate material, and a very neat carving
Although there were differences in the languages of different countries during the Warring States Period, they were undoubtedly mature, and the same was true for the seals. From the perspective of text layout, the printing face at this time paid more attention to the single text structure, which was not as good as the standardization standard of the Han Dynasty on the whole. The individual print is neat, compact and eye-catching. If you look at it from the print side, it seems to be scattered. At that time, the printed characters were still indistinguishable from the practical characters in social life, and there were few specific printed or artistic variants. The printing surface of the Warring States Seal is widely used with a wide frame. The wide frame often matches with the thin typeface, while the yin text is more often added with multiple columns. The appearance of these combinations shows that the modification of the overall layout of the printed surface was considered at that time on the premise that the printed text was not deformed. When later generations copied the seal of the Warring States, they often integrated the printing surface with the mutual cooperation of the seals, ignoring its unique characteristics of the times, and the works did not have the true historical features of the seal of the Warring States.

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