Please can anyone help identify what is written on this painting and the accompanying marks / seals please? I’ve tried to research this but the amount of information is overwhelming! Any help Gratefully received! Thank you.
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if you suspect this painting is valuable, contact the sotheby’s or christie’s– 水巷孑蠻Sep 20, 2020 at 14:14
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Wow, thank you so much for such an in depth reply! So helpful, I really appreciate it!– Caroline OvertonSep 20, 2020 at 19:17
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the top seal is “張爰㞢印”, you may compare the small seal character:
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=張
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=爰
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=㞢
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=印
roughly, it means the seal of “張爰”
the bottom one is “大千”
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=大
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=千
張大千, a famous artist in the last century 😸
the top five bigger characters are :番女掣厖啚 (last character, actually is a variant not yet have a unicode code point)
https://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt?quote_code=QTAwNzM5LTAwMQ
the following characters are:
甲x嘉平月蜀郡張爰大千父
“嘉平月” is the last month of the chinese calendar, roughly mid-december to mid-february
“蜀郡” is sichuan
“張爰大千父” is name of the author
甲x, well it must be the one of the sexagenary cycle. unfortunately i can’t recognise the x at this moment 😿
