As one of the most celebrated seal carvers of modern Chinese art and a co-founder of the Xiling Seal Art Society, Wang Ti (1880–1960) was also a master of seal-script Shufa. With encyclopedic knowledge of ancient inscriptions and practical mastery gained through carving, he achieved a style that balances structure with clarity, producing strokes that are at once clean and succinct. Historically, seal script was used in official documents and rituals before the rise of clerical script, and thus carried an aura of uprightness and solemnity. Wang preserves this spirit through his refined brush control, smoothing the edges of each stroke and fitting them tightly together into an archaic yet elegant whole.

His seal-script Shufa reveals the virtuoso’s gift for translating skills between carving and writing. The three-dimensional logic of engraving informs his brushwork, shaping each line with careful modulation of strength and rhythm. In Wang’s hands, Shufa does not stand apart but exists in dialogue with other forms of art—poetry, painting, and seal carving—demonstrating how the discipline flourishes as a unifying force across traditions.

作为西泠印社创社成员之一，王禔（1880 - 1960）被普遍认同为近代篆刻艺术与篆书的代表人物。他对篆刻有广博的了解，并在对古碑帖的研习和对篆刻的实践中掌握了篆书的技巧与章法，使他的篆字结构和谐平衡，笔画简洁干净。篆书在东周至汉初的流行时期主要用于朝廷官方文书和礼仪祭祀文本，因此在书写中强调端正庄重，个人精神表达受到一定局限。王禔用他对笔毫成熟稳重的掌握保证了篆书的传统章法，并让笔画平顺流畅，互相吻合，间架结构古朴典雅，温润平衡。

王禔的篆书彰显了书法通才在书印技术间的相互转换。他对篆刻的深度理解使他能将三维逻辑融入到二维书法的构图与力道，强调诗、书、画、印不仅需要兼修更需要互相结合交汇，形成统一自洽的水墨逻辑与美学。

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Translation:Let sweet dreams drift afar with the clouds,as idle thoughts linger with the spring.
signed Fu'an Wang Ti, dated yiyou (1945), summer, artist inscribed "I copied verses from Wang Yueshan (Song Dynasty) and Wang Anzhong (1075-1134), both Song dynasty poets, from the Collected Works of the Recluse of Yanshan (Wang Shizhen, 1526-1590), in response to a request from the esteemed scholar Bingkang, hence I humbly seek your correction."with two seals of the artist, wang ti si yin, fu an liu shi hou suo shu and one other collector's seal, jian biao xin shang (2)

釋文：好夢且隨雲遠，閑情正與春長。款識：書弇山居士集宋人王月山王安中詞句應炳康先生法家之屬，即希正腕。乙酉（1945）長夏，福厂王禔。
鈐印：「王禔私印」、「福厂六十歲後所書」鑒藏印：「建標心賞」（二鈐）