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而 希 子 古 Not quite sure about the order in which the characters should be read; also, not entirely sure that 希 is the correct reading.
神品 (Assuming the first character is only stylistically different)
The painting is of the Tang Dynasty poet Li Po holding a wine vessed; what is attached to his belt?
Who is the apparent artist? It seems the pen name is 清石.
When was it supposedly painted? The given date is 丙甲. The painting is actually from the early 20th century and the imperial seals on it are fake.
Who are represented by the additional seals?
How does one find out more of this sort of information?
Many thanks for your help...
Oh, and if anyone knows of a decent on-line dictionary to find traditional (and, ideally, archaic) Chinese characters by radical, please let me know.
Please send your guesses (and sources, if any) to the email, excluding asterisks and spaces to Lisa * Caroline * Lewis at gmail.Why so many seals, you ask? They were a mark of ownership. That way, if a scholar forgot and left the fish he bought in the market on the bus home, the person who unwrapped it could tell whose it was and might get it back to the owner before it spoiled. The upper classes often suffered from the absent-minded-professor syndrome, so without seals marking their paintings they'd probably have often gone hungry.
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