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Chinese Silk Art ?

Posted By: rat
Posted Date: Feb 04, 2015 (12:23 PM)

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I suggest that you bring this to a mounter and have it backed with another piece of silk and then paper. It seems to be 100 years or so old, painted by someone based in Shanghai. If you are near a city with a museum with a good sized department of Chinese or Japanese art, ask them who they use or whether their conservationists will do it on a freelance basis. Just a simple backing to protect the remaining material should be fine; mounting it as a scroll will be quite expensive.

Though the damage has obliterated the surname, I think it must be Wang. The given name confuses me though. The first character is Cheng 承 but the second character I can't look up successfully. It seems to be serving as a variant for something else; it's written clearly enough, it's a 動 put on top of the fire radical 灬 but this isn't itself in the dictionary. Super or Mikeoz or someone else here may know what it is a variant of.

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