19th century Chinese soapstone seal with carved raised characters on the bottom. The first photo shows the image of printing surface flipped left to right, so the seal can be read. Very nice variegated color stone, crisp carving of the characters, carved on the side (probably the name of the owner), old traces of red seal paste in the grooves, in excellent condition, very nice scholar’s object. Height 1.59 inches, base 0.73 x 0.72 inches.