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any ideas on this artwork.. it is quite beautiful...sorry my camera is not that great....

This is among the more celebrated and reproduced pictures of Quail ever painted in Japan. It didn't get translated last time it appeared in the forum (link), and while I haven't gotten any smarter in that language, maybe there's someone else around who can take it on this time.

Good luck,

Bill H.

URL Title :QuailPainting

Bill H's seal picture reads 起 光 on the signature side. Someone will know the Japanese translation.

Thanks Tom, those characters produced a hit on Tosa Mitsuoki, a 17th century Japanese artist, who has a painting to his credit titled Quail and Millet, which seems to fit this painting. Here's the relevant Wikipedia.org page. Check the link pasted here for notes on the painting in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum:

http://japaneseaesthetics.tumblr.com/page/15

Best regards,

Bill H.

URL Title :Mitsuoki

thanks for finding the old thread Bill H, I had forgotten all about it....

Hard to tell anything specific from your photograph other than it is a Japanese painting of decent quality of the Chinese subject of quail and grain, words which in Chinese form a rebus for peace and harmony. Similar pictures have been collected in Japan since the Chinese Song dynasty, but this is more recent. How much more recent can't be easily determined from the photo you have posted.

Thank you for taking time to reply! love learning new things...The quail picture has a date that it was framed of 1977 at least its a few years older.. repo or not.. I just love it

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