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Seal script or sigillary script is a style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC. It evolved organically out of bronze script during the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC).
Seal Script (篆書) Detail, Excerpt from the Third Stone Drum Poem in seal script. View full image. Seal script (zhuanshu) exists in two major forms. The earlier form, known as large-seal script (dazhuan), derived from symbols. cast on bronze ritual vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasties of the eleventh to third century BCE.
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Mar 20, 2017 · Seal script (zhuanshu, 篆書) exists in two major forms. The earlier form, known as large-seal script (dazhuan, 大篆), derived from symbols cast on bronze ritual vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasties of the eleventh to third century BC. As its linear composition became more regular, seal-script inscriptions were used mostly for ...
A "full rubbing" is a kind of ink rubbing technique complemented by the arts of line drawing, painting, and paper cutting. In it, the original form of the vessel is transferred to the...
The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used in other ancient Chinese states following Qin's wars of unification and establishment of the Qin dynasty (221 ...
Large seal script (sometimes translated as great seal script) is essentially the main script used throughout the Zhou dynasty (1046 BC – 256 BC), Spring and Autumn period (770 BC – 467 BC) and Warring States period (475 BC – 221 BC). It developed considerably during the centuries it was in use.
