Ink jade nose button “Du Anju” seal

[Ink jade nose button “Du Anju” print]

Ink jade nose button “Du Anju” print, printed face 1.6 × 1.6 cm, 1.0 cm high
This is a private print of the Eastern Han Dynasty, made of black jade, with a nose button. The printed text is in Chinese seal characters and white characters. The words “Du Anju” are read from the right. The seal is like casting, and its seal layout is known as the Han seal, especially similar to the style of the private seal of a single name cast in copper in the Eastern Han Dynasty. “An”, “An Ju”, “An Han”, “An Shi”, “An Cheng”, “An Guo” and so on are the common words used by men in the Han Dynasty. The color of the printed jade is black as ink and charcoal, and the light is like lacquer, but the quality contains stone.

“杜安居” 玉印钤本