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Hello,

I've had this painting for a while from my grandparents which they bought i china a long time ago and was wondering if anyone could translate the text/signature/ seal for me.

Any help translating would be gratly appreciated

Reading of the signature:
新着山人　　Xinzhao Shanren -　New comer hermit (Art-name of artist)
Seal reads,
皮木古龠尚 Esteemed Old Skin-wood Flute - Another
art-name of artist
Some Chinese artists do have half a dozen art-names.
Unfortunately, I could not find artist under this
art-names.
With regards,
I.Nagy

This is indeed not an easy one to crack.

Inside the chop mark, the single seal script at the left is 尚 Shang which is most likely the surname of the artist. (see pic 1)

At the right-hand side, from top to bottom are:
坡 Po - slope, same as that in the famous 蘇東坡 Su Dong Po. I could not find the seal script for 坡
but did find that for 皮 (see pic 2) 坡 is basically by using 土 (earth) as its left radical and 皮 as its right radical.

龢 - He2, harmony, peaceful; this one is quite difficult and the only reason I recognized it was because I know a famous person 翁同龢 Weng Tung He, the teacher for two Qing dynasty emperors who had this character in his name.
龢 is basically the same as 和 He, which can be much easier recognized and has the same pronunciation and meaning.

Therefore the name of the artist is 尚坡龢 Shang Po-he which is an very unusual name but unfortunately I could not find anything on him.
It is possibly that he is not very famous.

Also,the four characters on top of the chop mark are:

新眉山人

with the second character I believe to be 眉 Mei
(pic 3).

I also could not find anything on this name but only saw there was one questions asking who this person is.

Hope this helps.

Super
12/22/2017

Dear Super,

Always willing to help out when I can.

mikeoz

Good job, mikeoz. Thanks.

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