LATE QING DYNASTY/REPUBLIC PERIODComprising: nine carved in a honey-coloured stone with figures in landscape scenes, a yellow and grey stone with cranes in a rocky mountain and inscribed with a date for the second year of the Tongzhi period (1863), one worked in a reddish brown stone decorated with a lotus pond, and two square seals, seven of the seals with uncarved seal faces, 8.3cm max. (13)Provenance: from the collection of the late Michael Sherrard QC CBE (1928-2012), eight seals acquired from Tomlinson Antique House, Singapore, on 13th October 1993, a copy of the invoice is available.