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Subject:artwork? any ideas?
Posted By: jenn Sun, Sep 14, 2014 IP: 174.59.34.79
any ideas on this artwork.. it is quite beautiful...sorry my camera is not that great....



Subject:Re: artwork? any ideas?
Posted By: Bill H Mon, Sep 15, 2014
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


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Subject:Re: artwork? any ideas?
Posted By: Tom McLean Tue, Sep 16, 2014
Bill H's seal picture reads 起 光 on the signature side. Someone will know the Japanese translation.

Subject:Re: artwork? any ideas?
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Sep 17, 2014
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


Subject:Re: artwork? any ideas?
Posted By: rat Wed, Sep 17, 2014
thanks for finding the old thread Bill H, I had forgotten all about it....

Subject:Re: artwork? any ideas?
Posted By: rat Mon, Sep 15, 2014
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.

Subject:Re: artwork? any ideas?
Posted By: jenn Tue, Sep 16, 2014
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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