An inscribed and dated soapstone 'lion' seal Ming dynasty | 明 壽山石臥獅紐方印

Incised onto the seal face in zhuanshu with the Heart Sutra, the four sides with the same Buddhist text in kaishu, and signed Wen Peng (1497–1573) with an apocryphal date of the 16th years of Jiajing's reign, corresponding to 1537.