A Tianhuang 'Bamboo' Seal, signed Yi Fan (b. 1953) Second half of the 20th Century

carved naturalistically in the form of a cluster of bamboo stems and groves, the latter issuing pendent leaves, carved on one side with two characters reading Yi Fan, the smoothly polished stone of a warm caramel-brown colour, wood stand

Yi Fan is a renowned shoushan stone carver from Fujian. Born in 1953 in Fuzhou, he studied under Wu Lue and Zhou Baoting. He is renowned for his skillfully expressive carvings of a wide range of objects, including figures, animals and plants.