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Sir Thomas Spencer's Chinese seal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Norman Hammond and
Wang Xiao-Hui
Norman Hammond
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA.
Wang Xiao-Hui
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA.
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Abstract

The discovery of an ancient Chinese seal in an Oxfordshire garden three centuries ago still provokes interest. This note examines how the seal came to be published by Dr Robert Plot, and what it might have represented.

Keywords

ChinesesealRobert PlotAshmolean MuseumSpencerOxfordshireantiquarian

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 277 , September 1998, pp. 550 - 553
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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