Roland Himmler & Guat Cheng Poh
Chinese Seed Carvings
The Book's Table of Content
Wishes in Miniature
1 History of Seed Carving 02 - 05
1.1 Ming / Qing Dynasty
1.3 The Themes of Carving
1.4 Location, Remuneration, Basic Requirements
1.5 Well known Carvers up to Qing Dynasty
5 Overview 43
5.1 Comments on Pictures: Natural size 44
5.2 Comments on Pictures: Age, Color / Coloring 45
5.4 Different Seeds / Same Design 47
5.5 Same Design / Differently carved 48
5.6 Similar Designs elsewhere 49 - 58
5.7 Quality of Carving 59 - 67
6 Design Groups 68
6.1 Animals 69 - 70
6.6 Design with unknown meaning to us 86 - 87
6.9 Rosaries / Bracelets 98 - 111
6.10 Different Faces of Luohan 112
6.12 “Expression” Rosary 114 - 117
6.13 Village Scenes / Countryside 118 - 121
7 Other Collections / Artists / Dealers 123
7.1 Royal Botanical Garden Kew – London, GB 124
7.4 Zhao Yutao, Zigong / Sichuan - China 128
7.5 Han Zhiyao, Dalian / Liaoning - China 129
7.6 Yun Du village - China 130
8.1 Canarium pimela – ‘Chinese Olive 132
8.2 Other Seeds for Carving 133 - 135
8.3 Sources of Design 136 - 137
8.4 The Instruments / Working Places 138
9 The Carvers and their Skill 141
9.1 “Producing” the same Piece of Art “twice” 142 - 143
9.2 Porcelain: Using the same Motif / Design 144
9.3 Wood: “Blue print” and Copying 145 - 146
9.4 Jewelry: “Blue print” and Copying 147
9.5 Textile: “Blue print” and Manual Design 148
9.6 The skills of the Artists 149 - 150
9.8 Writing on Olives: Poem or Name of Design 152 - 153
9.9 Writing on Olives: Signatures of Artists 154 - 156
9.10 Old Carvings without Signature (Beijing Area) 157 - 160
9.11 Present day Dealers / Carvers 161 - 162
10 Identifying / Comparing Artists 163
10.2 Different Artist / Different Styles 174
10.3 Internet : New Design / New Artists known to us (since 2008) 175 - 177
12 Information Sources, Literature, Personal Communications 181 - 187