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Subject:Chinese Watercolour
Posted By: peter Sun, Nov 06, 2016 IP: 86.137.27.94
Please could anyone help me to understand the seal marks and the signature on this painting, for your information, the painting appears hand painted (I can see brush marks in the colours)there are 5 red seal stamps, the painting is 70cms by 50cms
I have posted a picture of my painting and a photograph of a page in a reference book I have of Ancient Chinese Paintings, I see 5 of my painting seals upon this ancient painting, thank you for considering
Peter

Subject:Re: Chinese Watercolour
Posted By: rat Mon, Nov 07, 2016
Your pictures did not come through (try resizing to fit whatever the file size limit is; there are free programs to do this online).

Without seeing the images, however, there's a good chance that the seals you see duplicated on your picture are seals belonging to the Qianlong emperor, who was known to stamp them (and write inscriptions) on hundreds of his favored paintings. In impressing seals he was followed in this, though to a lesser extent, by the Jiaqing and Xuantong emperors. Just as bronzes ever since have been created to include Xuande marks and ceramics include Qianlong marks--as a way of associating themselves with the perceived high water periods of quality in those media, so too do traditional paintings more or less ever since have replica Qianlong etc seals (some convincing, some not) impressed on them. You may have a high quality reproduction of a painting that was in the imperial collection, or a picture made for tourists of low quality with imitation imperial seals attached. Or something else if your photos tell us otherwise.

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