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The Jiaolong Button Treasure Seal features round carved double dragons, with one dragon body carved with two dragon heads roaring towards the back. The dragon whiskers are curled up, and the four dragon horns are connected to the back, resting on the back of the seal. The four claws are thick and powerful, tightly grasping the top surface of the seal, with exquisite carving and strong three-dimensional sense. The printing platform adopts an advanced system of adding poetry and prose, with shallow inscriptions around it filled with gold. The inscription reads "Made by Emperor Daoguang in the 11th year of the Daoguang reign, Xinmao Ji Chunyue", indicating that this seal was made in the year when the Shende Hall was built. The seal of "Dao" and "Guang" is a continuous bead seal, which is currently stored in the Palace Museum in Beijing and can be used as proof. The seal script consists of the four characters "Shende Tangbao" in Yangwen jade chopsticks and seal script. ‘ Due to the use of Hetian jade from Xinjiang, which has a dense and hard texture and is not easy to carve, the Baoxi seal adopts the special seal carving technique of "flat knife straight down" that was popular during the Qianlong period. It uses a short distance broken knife to continuously cut into characters, step by step, like a rough pen in calligraphy, showing a strong, condensed, thick and stable atmosphere. The button style yellow silk ribbon, with the decorative pattern and knot fixing method on the head of the ribbon also consistent with the practice of large imperial seals in the Qing Dynasty, indicates that it is a precious decoration originally used in the Qing palace.