The substantial stone of an even light fern-green colour,superbly worked in the form of a pair of addorsed dragons resting atop the seal,each mythical beast powerfully rendered with long whiskers flanking a slightly agape mouth revealing sharp fangs, the upper edge of the intertwined scaly bodies decorated with well pronounced bosses simulating prominent spinal columns,the seal face crisply worked with a border enclosing a four-character inscription in seal script reading Qianlong Yubi.