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Yinchuang
Seal Registry
Open the bed

印床 · The carver's bed holds the stone

Every seal finds its cell on the bed.

Yinchuang is the registry that lays each impression into a carved stone grid — tiles meeting tiles, the channel between them doing the work. Cinnabar lights the record under review. Provenance, authentication, and collection, composed like glyphs inside a seal face.

Press to begin See the grid
12,408impressions on the bed
1,902provenance trails carved
朱文cinnabar on carved stone
01

The seal-bed grid

how it holds together
Mechanic

Tessellation

Records abut into a tight stone bed; the carved channel between them is the only border.

Alignment

Registration

Gold crosshairs sit where channels cross — the way a carver squares the stone in the vise.

Emphasis

Coverage

Weight is cinnabar coverage, never a floating shadow. The active cell carries the ink.

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What the bed proves

the work it does
Catalogue
12.4k

Impressions indexed by mark, carver, and school — readable at a glance across the bed.

Provenance
真迹

Every trail carved cell by cell, from court atelier to private estate, channel-aligned to the master rubbing.

Authentication
AA

Curator certification in gold; disputed marks flagged in cinnabar. Color is never the only signal.

The intake desk

Press a new impression onto the bed.

Record a mark, attribute its carver, and let the registration channel align it against the catalogue. The press is decisive.

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