Questions tagged [seal]
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What are the characters in this seal script inscription on an ancestral altar?
Hi, this four character inscription is on an ancestral altar which contains two spirit tablets. I am unsure of the more modern equivalents of these characters and would be grateful for any assistance.
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Help me translate the red signature seal on this picture?
I inherited these pictures from my grandmother who bought them in China in 1980-81. I have had a difficult time trying to translate the red artist signature seals. I have tried image translator app, I ...
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What do these stamps mean?
The first stamp could mean Jing Zhao, no?
Sorry for the last one, I can´t have a better picture.
Thanks a lot,
Simon
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What does this seal stamp say?
My parents have bought some type of ceramic vessel (plate, pot, something like that), which has the following stamp on the bottom:
Armed with 米好 '-'’s answer on how to decipher seal script, I’ve done ...
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Identify artist of tapestry
I am try to identify the artist or school of art for a silk tapestry by their seal:
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Antique Chinese painting
Before I ask I'd like to say how much I admire Chinese culture and art. Hence I always dig in antique shops for something from China. A few years ago I bought these beautiful twin paintings (not ...
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What is the missing character on the seal?
跟進此問題，題中之印
共收六字，其中五字無疑，作爲
後皇漢裔帝Ｘ
Ｘ是何字，解之有難。僅看字形，個人釋之爲「亘」，而@水巷孑蠻釋之爲「亙」，因漢朝既無「亘帝」也無「亙帝」，二解都有問題。
先說說「亘」與「亙」二字的字源。二者在秦漢之後已經就被混淆了，甚至到今世多釋之爲繁簡或異體關係，非也。
「亘」字本義是環繞、迴旋，很可能跟「還」、「漩」等類似的詞有同源關係，但初期竝無「亘」字而以「...
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What are the six characters on this seal?
What are the characters on this seal? The middle two seem to be 皇帝, but I can't make out the other four.
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Chinese Poem And Seal Translation Needed
Really Hoping someone can Translate this Old Chinese Painting Poem and Seal into English for me.
edited, picture added.
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What are the characters on this seal?
What are the characters on this seal?
Flipped image for easier reading:
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Where can I find a decent Seal Script font?
I have 9 TrueType fonts that include seal script hanzi, but do not include them entirely. Could someone show me a decent font, or send me via email the shuowen jiezi font?
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What does this seal of 宋高宗 say?
It is a bookmark sold by the Palace Museum in Taipei, from a seal on a piece titled 宋高宗書七言律詩.
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Chinese painting poem and seal meaning
Could anyone please help me, I got a painting as a gift, and I tried to find the meaning of the poem and seals on my painting but it didn’t succeed.
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Meaning of seal and engraved characters on teapot
I came across an old teapot with inscriptions, but since I don’t speak Chinese, I have no means to know what is written on it.
There are two columns of five characters (four columns with twenty ...
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Help please me find out what this means
I’m looking to find out what this means. Please help was handed down to me from my family
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Is there a difference between Seals written before 1900 and after 1900? [closed]
I purchased a painting with an Asian Seal on it. No one or organization seems to be able to decipher it. Someone did state it appears to be Modern, after 1900.
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Shen (神) character painted over a seal
The same 神 character is painted over a seal on 2 different artworks:
An early landscape painting (by Wei Xian/卫贤?):
A calligraphy by Wang Xizhi:
Painting over a seal seems rather rare to me. I ...
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What does this seal stamp on Chinese painting mean?
Is this seal the name of an artist or poet? How can I find him?
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Is this translation okay?
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Thank you for every answer....
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What are these characters on old brass stamps?
These brass stamps were found by a relative in China ~1917.
I'm wondering what the inscriptions mean.
The smaller one in the likeness of an elephant is worn and discolored.
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What do these two seal stamps and these three characters on my Chinese painting mean?
I got a seemingly Chinese painting from a thrift shop some time ago and would like to know what the seal stamps and characters on it mean. I have to admit that I don't have any prior knowledge of the ...
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How to look up seal script characters?
When we know a modern Hanzi, finding its seal script equivalent in a dictionary is not a problem. However, a more common case is that we have an existing seal script character we cannot identify, and ...
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Was Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字 originally written in the seal script 小篆?
Modern editions of Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字 use seal characters 小篆 only in the headwords. This is also the case with editions published a few hundred years ago. Was the whole original 121 edition of Shuowen ...
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Meaning of a seal
Could you tell me the meaning of this seal? I got it as a present from China but I don't know what it means...
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What is the name of the university in this seal?
I was able to read the second half (大學圖書), but not the actual name of the university.
The image is cropped from a book posted here.
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Artist seal and meaning
I am trying to identify the artist that this seal belongs too. The closest I could find was either Chen Hongshou or Yang Jin but both are different stylistically from the picture that bears this seal. ...
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Can you decipher what this seal stamp says and means? [closed]
I am told that this seal stamp character(s) are from the Chinese dialect, though I got it from my Japanese grandmother. She had it made and gave it to me. I was told it says 'strong and smart' and ...
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The meaning of a Chinese inscription found under a little sculpture
I bought a figure of a taoist wise some years ago, and in all these years I have been unable to decipher the tiny seal (1cm x 1cm) under the figure.
It is an important figure in my life and I would ...
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Writing direction on seals
I am experimenting with an online seal generator, the text I have entered is 一千五百 and I have noticed that the characters go first from top right to bottom right, then from bottom left to top left. Is ...
