When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Seals in the Sinosphere - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seals_in_the_Sinosphere

    Scheme of Chinese seal, seal paste, and technique to use them. An East Asian seal which used to belong to a Chinese merchant in the 1930s and 40s. Many people in China possess a personal name seal. Artists, scholars, collectors and intellectuals may possess a full set of name seals, leisure seals, and studio seals.

  3. Heirloom Seal of the Realm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_Seal_of_the_Realm

    The Seal was created in 221 BC, shortly after Qin Shi Huang unified China and established the Qin dynasty, China's first imperial dynasty. The Heirloom Seal served as the imperial Chinese seal throughout the next millennium of Chinese history, and its possession was seen as a physical symbol of the Mandate of Heaven.

  4. National seals of the Republic of China - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_seals_of_the...

    中華 民國 之璽 Use Official seal of the state Seal of Honour 榮典之璽 Versions Armiger Republic of China Adopted 1 July 1931 ; 93 years ago (1931-07-01) Motto 榮典之璽 榮典 之璽 Use Conferring of honours The National seals of the Republic of China are the official seals of the Republic of China also called Taiwan. The Seal of Honour is used by the head of state in the ...

  5. Seal of the People's Government of the People's Republic of ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_the_People's...

    The Seal of the People's Government of the People's Republic of China is cast from brass, with a little ammonium added. The seal has a square base, and a cylindrical handle on the top. The height of the seal base is 2.5 centimetres, and the handle is 10.9 centimetres tall, totalling 13.4 centimetres in height.

  6. Seal carving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_carving

    Seal carving, also seal cutting, or zhuanke in Chinese (篆 刻), is a traditional form of art that originated in China and later spread across East Asia.It refers to cutting a design into the bottom face of the seal (the active surface used for stamping, rather than the sides or top).

  7. Side carving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_carving

    Side engraving of a governmental seal of the Song dynasty (c. 1,000 years ago). Remarks shows the issue date and the office of the seal. The history of this art can be traced back as early as the Late Zhou and Qin dynasties when government or official seals had short notations on their side surfaces indicating the owner of the seal (by engraving the owner's name), the maker of the seal (by ...

  8. Public Seal of Hong Kong - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Seal_of_Hong_Kong

    Design: Originally created by Mr. B. Wyon, Her Majesty's Medallist in Chief, [3] in 1841, the seal is engraved as follows. In the centre an oval medallion in which is depicted Hong Kong harbour with, in the foreground, a wharf with three people and five bales of merchandise on it; in the middleground, a Chinese junk under sail and a three-masted European-style sailing ship with bare yardarms ...

  9. Imperial Seal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Seal

    Imperial Seal refers to the seal used by East Asian imperial families to endorse imperial edicts. Heirloom Seal of the Realm, the official seal of the Chinese Empire; Imperial Seal of Manchukuo, the official seal of the Manchukuo during World War II; Imperial Seal of the Mongols, the official seal of various Mongol-led regimes