New answers tagged character-identification
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rotate the photo 180 °, make it upside down, one can read it as:
“成化年製”
it means roughly “made during 1465-1487”
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means being stunned, speechless or stupefied
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compare to the original text, it’s an extremely poor quality fake product 😾
the original is named “楚王鐘” in 殷周金文集成 (00072), or named as “楚邛仲南和鐘” in 歷代鍾鼎彝器款識法帖 卷六:
https://archive.org/details/06052850.cn/page/n139/mode/2up
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The characters are very deformed, but the best match to the writing looks like
富䝿（貴）昌矦（侯）王
Flourishing wealth and prosperity, fitting for the noblemen and king.
隹（唯）正月初吉丁亥，䠂（楚）王賸（媵）邛𠁩（中＞仲）嬭𠆦（乍＞作）嬭
'Tis the day of dīnghài of the first week of the first month, and the King of Chǔ gifts Second Lady 「嬭」 from the State of 「邛」 ... as dowry ...
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Thanks to @Mou某's excellent observation, I looked up a copybook of Naxi pictographs (He 2003) and was able to identify the following:
The pictographs (Dongba script) are the writing system of the Naxi language.
The pictographs on the left are the four seasons. They are compound ideographs.
Compound ideograph
Components = sky +
Pronunciation
Spring
wind*
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They are 象形文字 (Hieroglyphs) inspired modern art
Too much information in these drawings to be a simple character. They are more a story than words
Either a river flows from a mountain or rain fell from a cloud, and a person is digging the soil with a hoe
Either a river flows from a mountain or a field near the mountain, and a person is planting seeds
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The banner is written from right to left (Chinese format)
豐 = abundant
澤 = blessing (gift)
寺 = temple
豐澤寺/ 丰泽寺 [fēng zé sì]: Temple of Abundant Blessing (gift)
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The characters are 「胡窯」, a maker's mark for Japanese arita ware. Google search 胡窯 to get more information and image hits.
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I am Chinese. I carefully watched the characters you showed us. I have no idea what “极女戈” means. I take it as characters which were randomly wrote together. There is no meaning in it.
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The first one is 張 (zhāng), and about the second one, I'm not so sure, could be 直 zhí Probably?
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