Chengqingguan yinpu 承清館印譜

Chengqingguan yinpu 承清館印譜 is a seal album compiled during the late Ming period 明 (1368-1644) by Zhang Hao 張灝, whose name is usually tied to his catalogue Xueshantang yinpu 學山堂印譜.

The "Catalogue of the Reception and Transmission of Purity" is divided into two collections (Zhengji 正集, and Xuji 續集), and presents the creations of 22 seal carvers, among others, Wen Peng 文彭 (1498-1573), Shen Ye 沈野, He Zhen 何震 (1541-1606), Su Xuan 蘇宣 (1553-1626) and Li Liufang 李流芳 (1575-1629). It was thus the first Chinese catalogue presenting the artworks of contemporary seal carvers. Each page shows the imprints of 4 seals, with a total number of 840 items. All objects are annotated, with information on the artist and the material of the seal itself, and the seal-script is transposed into regular script.

The book was published in 1617.

Figure 1. Seal imprints from the Chengqingguan yinpu 承清館印譜

From Guangming zhi men 光明之門.