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Subject:Re: Two seal script marks
Posted By: mikeoz Tue, Aug 21, 2012
Ethan,
I'm afraid that you will just have to keep asking - unless you are prepared to spend many years studying, and many dollars on a raft of dictionaries, and books of seal impression collections.
The problem is that unlike the Roman letter forms (or even Cyrillic or Greek) Chinese seal script has so very many possible variants, a situation exacerbated by the artistic experiments of seal carvers and calligraphers over the last two millennia. Further complicated by the fact that prior to the consolidation of the 'small seal script' around the beginning of the common era, each state and language group in what became China as we know it, had their own script. And seal carvers like to sometimes use these forms to show how clever they are.
However, if you don't mind being seen as eccentric (if not slightly crazy) the study of seals and seal script can be a lot of fun.
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