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This vase, which I think is rather nice, is in the manner of Bi Botao and signed as such.

The trouble is, it turns out there is very little in the public domain that looks authentic to me, that I can compare it with.

The poem calligraphy looks somewhat plausible, but what about the very unusual name chop, which looks like a face?! Has anyone seen this before?

Reading of colophon,

壬午一月古歙畢渊明畫并題
In January of the Year of Water-Horse (1942)
Painting and Inscription by Gushe Bi Yuanming
Seal,
印　-　Yin - Seal
Other seal(3rd pic.),
山谷　-　Shangu (Mountain valley) - I do not have idea about it.

The upper part of the longer poem is missing from the 2nd picture. On the 1st picture from the second line mostly illegible. Anyway, the poem is about a small monkey.


Bi Yuanming 畢渊明　1907-1990
One of his pseudonyms was Gushe 古歙　(Old)
His father was Bi Botao 畢伯濤　one of the famous Eight Friends of Zhushan. The son has become quite famous, too.

With regards,
I.Nagy

Thank you so much!

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