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Carved Stone Sage - Chinese or Japanese? - Gary Furst - Dec 28, 2016 (11:10 AM)
- Carved Stone Sage - Chinese or Japanese? - rat - Dec 29, 2016 (01:42 PM)
  - Carved Stone Sage - Chinese or Japanese? - Gary Furst - Dec 30, 2016 (06:09 AM)
    - Carved Stone Sage - Chinese or Japanese? - Gary Furst - Jan 12, 2017 (11:16 AM)

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Subject:Carved Stone Sage - Chinese or Japanese?
Posted By: Gary Furst Wed, Dec 28, 2016 IP: 88.109.237.33

Could somebody please tell me if this carved stone sage is Chinese or Japanese and what the inscription and chop say?

Subject:Carved Stone Sage - Chinese or Japanese?
Posted By: rat Thu, Dec 29, 2016

interesting contemporary? Chinese seal, the legend is not too hard to read, but I'm not sure of a good translation
天下風行, where 天下 means "everything (all under heaven), and 風行 means "popular, fashionable"

The characters on the side of the seal are harder to read but seem to be the artist's name in the left column and hometown in the right.

Mikeoz may have some good insights on this one

Subject:Carved Stone Sage - Chinese or Japanese?
Posted By: Gary Furst Fri, Dec 30, 2016

Thanks for the insight rat. I have tried to take a better picture of the inscription. I don't know the age of the sculpture, it could be contemporary, but nothing was known about it when we bought it 3 months ago at an antiques fair.

Subject:Carved Stone Sage - Chinese or Japanese?
Posted By: Gary Furst Thu, Jan 12, 2017

Does anyone have any further information they wish to pass on with regards to the above image translations?