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LARGE Guanyin painting on silk

Posted By: rat
Posted Date: Sep 28, 2015 (09:12 AM)

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This is a nice painting, but your understanding of the inscription is off, as it refers to someone named Xu Shaowei 徐绍渭, and not Xu Wei 徐渭 the Ming painter, who as you pointed out worked in an entirely different style. However Xu Shaowei is not referenced in any books I have at hand; the 稽山 named as his master might be someone named Fan Pu 范铺, who is listed as a Qing painter with this nickname who was good at painting peonies in monochrome ink. However that sort of painting is very far distant from this picture's style, so I suspect Fan Pu is not the Jishan mentioned in the inscription. One other possible option is that following the character 敬 "respectfully" in the inscription is not the character 畫 or 写 ("respectfully painted or inscribed"), but 赠 for "respectfully presented", in which case the Xu Shaowei would represent the donor pictured at the goddess's feet.

Stylistically it's somewhat hard to date as it incorporates elements from various periods, including, it seems to me, the 20th century.

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