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Similar style painting but later period
Posted By: rat
Posted Date: Sep 28, 2015 (05:52 PM)
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I don't recognize the artist, who has an unusual nickname, Zhizhi (執之), and I can't read the two characters that may be the artist's full name which follow it. (The seal also reads 執之)

This one is not religious and there's no fengshui purpose for paintings per se that I can think of, though Chinese houses of the wealthy often had layouts designed to incorporate places for pictures to be hung. I think van Gulik describes this a bit in "Chinese Pictorial Art..." These vernacular pictures of individual women are often for male enjoyment. This one features a lonely lovelorn maiden (per the verse also relating her to the flowering plum) gesturing suggestively towards her mouth. It may sound crude but you'll find more such examples in Cahill's "Pictures for Use and Pleasure".




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