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A marble anamorphic form. The bottom of the piece is flat with two visible legs horizontal along the body. The rounded head sits upright and has two shallow holes for eyes. The wide ears on top are round and flat against the head.

Stamp Seal in the Shape of a Recumbent Bull: Two Dogs?

Mesopotamian

Skippet or Seal Box and Seal

Skippet or Seal Box and Seal, first mark 1730

Mordecai Fox

End-leaf from an Album with Two Seals of Isshi reading (upper) Bunshu and (lower)

End-leaf from an Album with Two Seals of Isshi reading (upper) Bunshu and (lower), 1608 - 1646

Isshi Bunshu

Vertical landscape of tall pine trees at the bottom cascading up into a mountainous landscape.　

River Landscape, 1697 - 1752

Sakaki Hyakusen 彭城百川

Stamp seal with oval face and criss-cross design

Stamp seal with oval face and criss-cross design

Anatolian

Sarlawh of the double-page illuminated frontispiece; ownership notes and seals (notes and seals recto; sarlawh verso of folio 3), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Sarlawh of the double-page illuminated frontispiece; ownership notes and seals (notes and seals recto; sarlawh verso of folio 3), folio from a manuscript of the Mathnavi Ma‘navi by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi

Persian

Pocket Mirror

Pocket Mirror, 1880 - 1921

Hashiguchi Goyō 橋口五葉

SEAL

SEAL

Iranian

Seal

Seal, 1882 - 1935

Gaston Lachaise

Seal

Seal

Byzantine

Seal

Seal

Byzantine

Scaraboid Stamp Seal: Bird in Flight to Right with Cycle-shaped Wing

Scaraboid Stamp Seal: Bird in Flight to Right with Cycle-shaped Wing

Anatolian

Scaraboid Stamp Seal: Heron with Leg Raised

Scaraboid Stamp Seal: Heron with Leg Raised

Achaemenid

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

German

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

German

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

German

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

German

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in landscape, right page)

German

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in the distance, right page)

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (seals in the distance, right page)

German

Strap End

Strap End

Anglo-Saxon

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