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Here's another painting I bought today.

Small....about 15" x 15".

Interesting that the artist painted the borders as well as the primary scene. Small tear/damage in the face of the central character.

Kind of gives me the sense of the type of artistry found on Qianjiang porcelain...Shanghai school?

Dated Wu Zi - 1888?

Info on artist and translation appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

This is a birthday gift wishing long life. Not Shanghai school or Qianjiang related. Judging from the woven silk my guess is 1948 rather than 1888. The painter has given his home Moling (near Nanjing) 秣陵 and surname Wang 王, but I haven't found the given name.

Could the names be Ying Yu 鷹宇?

Good idea. I had thought the 广 element of that character would preclude writing anything other than the dian above the horizontal, but here it seems the artist has done so and I can't think of any good alternatives with a radical above the line. I don't see anyone by this name in my references though, so perhaps as expected this is a minor painter.

The frame looks to be from the 1940's, if not earlier, and the painting does not look to have ever been removed.

I had guessed 1988 since the damage to the silk and creases probably occurred over time prior to framing, but i suppose the damage may have occurred early in the life of the painting, just before framing.

Also, the detail to the borders and blanket that the figures are sitting on just seems to have the style of swastika brocade used on porcelains in the late 19th, too. To me, it is quite like the artist intended to paint a plaque, only did so on silk instead of porcelain.

Thanks as always.

all reasonable observations, and artworks surviving from 1948 are not common, still plaques usually imitate paintings rather than the reverse, at least that's what their inscriptions often state even when there's little or no stylistic basis to tie a given plaque to the Yuan or Ming artist its inscription usually names. I'm just not sure this sort of silk was painted on in the 19th century.

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