19th century Chinese soapstone seal with carved sunken 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, old traces of red seal paste in the grooves, inscribed on the side (probably with the name of the owner), very nice scholar’s object. Height 1.67 inches, base 0.5 x 0.5 inches.