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Zou ma guan hua 走馬觀花 Riding out on horseback to view the flowers, 1958?

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/8/6/2/3

Scope and Contents

編號 No.:3A 材質 Material:銅 bronze 尺寸 Size:1.15 × 1.15 cm 閒章。均铜製小方印,钮为狮子。與3B為同文陰陽刻對章,此為陽刻,1958 年夏購刻。
編號 No.:3B 材質 Material:銅 bronze 尺寸 Size:1.20 × 1.20 cm 閒章。均铜製小方印,钮为狮子。 與3A為同文陰陽刻對章,此為陰刻,1958 年夏購刻的。
Whimsical seals. A pair of small metal seals bought in the summer of 1958. It means literally “riding out on horseback to view the flowers”, which originally meant doing something that made one very happy, though later came to mean paying only cursory attention to something. Almost certainly 1958, since there is a scrap of paper with test stamps of them and Joseph Needham’s translation “Riding out on horseback to view the flowers” found near the end of folder “Book Buying 中 1958”, and one of them is stamped on several of the old books bought in 1958 (though he also stamps some with an older seal and a newer seal).


Dates

  • Creation: 1958?

Extent

2 object(s) : Bronze.

Dimensions

1.15 × 1.15 cm and 1.20 × 1.20 cm.

Repository Details

Part of the Needham Research Institute Repository

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