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Hi, I need help identify the seals on this paiting. Thanks

Both seals are easy to read. But this is not a free translation service. It is a forum of people interested in the Arts of Asia, and who (in the main) are happy to share their images and information.

Perhaps, if you had the courtesy to post an image of the painting, others would be happy to assist you.

U really should post the whole painting including close up of any calligraphy including the artist's signature. This is not a free translation service for eBay sellers

The owner of this painting has emailed me a picture of the painting (see below).

The artist's signature is hard to read, but appears to be a pen-name beginning with Xiao.

The first seal reads Lai ZhaiHuan Yin - the seal of Lai ZhaiHuan.

The second seal reads Guan Wan Wu You Sheng Yi - Seeing ten thousand things is the origin of ideas.

The title of the painting reads (something) Cheng Wen Li - the three characters I can read feature in a number of popular sayings and have the meaning of "a journey of ten thousand miles'.

Thanks to Mikeoz for posting the painting and translating the seal. The original poster posted two seals but I only saw one seal on the painting. Where is the other one?

The title of the picture is a four-character Chinese cheng yu (idiom)

前程萬里 Qiang Cheng Wan Li

first two characters 前程 means future and
last two characters 萬里 means ten thousand miles;
Using together, it is used to congratulate a person to have a very brilliant future. Usually, you will use this when a young person who will enter college or start a new career.

The seal shown on the second picture (where is it on the painting?) is:

觀萬物有生意

觀 - guan, using as a verb, means to watch or watching;
萬物 - wan wu, using as a compound noun, means all things on earth (ten thousand objects);
有 you - full of, exists.
生意 - using as a 2-character compound noun again, means life and vitality (interestingly it can also mean business (trades) depending how you use it in a sentence. That shows you the difficulty in translating some of these Chinese 2-character compound nouns)

Together, the seven-character sentence means:

From watching (and observing) everything on earth we can feel the existence of life and vitality.

Cannot really read the signature of artist (enlarged and clear picture needed), the first character indeed looks like 小 xiao (small) which was commonly used by some Chinese as part of their nick names. For example, if your family name is Lai, others (close friends or families) or yourself can call you Xiao Lai.

Hope this helps.

Super

Hello, I apologize in advance, but my English is bad and I use the compiler. From your report, I realized that I have to pay someone for identification stamps - yes, I agree.
The picture we bought with his wife in Asia, because we liked the theme image, but we do not know who painted it. I'm not a seller from Ebay, as it is written in the second report.
Thank you again for your help and advice on how to determine the author.

Martin from Prague

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