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2 Chinese fan paintings - Artist/Translation help please!

Posted By: rat
Posted Date: Jan 01, 2015 (05:45 PM)

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I think the landscape picture will be easier actually: the artist's surname is clearly Wang 王 but my cursive skills aren't good enough to decipher the given name or the place name that precedes the surname; the seal impressions are quite clear but I'm not getting which characters they are despite the elements I can identify. Go through Shuowen or a zhuanshu dictionary to find what their kaishu forms are and then look them up in an index of alternative artists' names and you may get a hit.

The seal on the fan picture of the birds looks too worn to read but the inscription seems to include the artist's given name (fourth line from end), location name (the two lines preceding that), studio name (last two lines), and recipient's name (first few columns).

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