161 - CHINESE WHITE JADE WITH RUSSET SKIN SEAL

CHINESE WHITE JADE WITH RUSSET SKIN SEAL ATTRIBUTED TO ZHAO ZHICHEN (1781-1860) 趙之琛款 白玉帶皮籽料雕印章印文：恨古人不見我側刻款：蔭堂仁兄雅正，乙未二月，趙之琛half of the natural pebble form, the stone of white tone with russet skin, the seal front carved with six characters reading ‘Hen Gu Ren Bu Jian Wo’ (I regret that the ancients cannot see me),the side engraved with inscriptions and year of Yiwei, corresponding to 1835AD 4.5cm high Property of a British Family英國藏家收藏 Zhao Zhichen (1781–1860), a native of Qiantang, Zhejiang. He was devoted to the study of antiquity and deeply versed in epigraphy, and was also skilled in painting. In his early years, his seal carving followed the style of Chen Hongshou, and later he studied under Chen Yuzhong. He absorbed the strengths of various masters and became the great synthesizer of the Zhejiang school of seal carving. His seal style is neat and upright, and he was especially renowned for his single-knife stone carving technique. Several of his seal impression catalogues have been handed down to posterity.趙之琛（1781-1860年），浙江錢塘人。精心嗜古，邃金石之學，亦善繪畫。篆刻早年師法陳鴻壽，後以陳豫鐘為師，取各家之長，集浙派篆刻之大成。印風工整挺拔，刻法尤以單刀刻石見長。有多種印譜傳世。