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LARGE Guanyin painting on silk

Posted By: Tim
Posted Date: Sep 26, 2015 (10:30 PM)

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I'm looking for some feedback on the quality, artist, age of this paintings. Thanks.

I bought this painting of Guanyin from a well to do family that traveled extensively in Asian. They had a fairly extensive collection of paintings from Japan, China, and India, although the quality was not consistent...some good, some reproduction (or later paintings copying earlier style). I'm hoping this one is the real deal.

The visible area of the painted silk is 71.5" x 37", but the matting may be concealing some of the painting below.

Anyway, a friend gave me the pinyin characters for what is written - 稽山弟子徐绍渭敬

Google translates this to "Jishan disciple XU Wei Jing". Xu Wei is a famous painter of the Ming dynasty, however all of the works I've found are brush paintings....not in this style.

If I understand the translation correctly, this painting is by a disciple of Xu Wei from the town of Jishan. However, I'm not sure about the translation.

There are 5 seals on the painting....the glass makes it very hard to photograph, but I'll give it another try in a few days.

I guess I felt the piece was 17/18th c., but haven't found anything quite the same in size or style....

Thanks for the help. If desired, I'll gladly post more photos...there is really a lot of detail to capture on this piece (hard to do in 3 pics).

Thanks,
Tim








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