O... M... G!... Fun, fun, fun! Do you welcome squatters? :happy:;):smuggrin: How did you get the keys to junkers' paradise? :hilarious: Welcome to...
Chinoiserie. Those "characters" are anything but, just scribbles trying to imitate Chinese writing.
天津冬菜 / Tianjin Dong Cai. Tianjin (city name) Winter Vegetables. Pickled salty vegetables made in Tianjin.
Japanese ikebana vase for sure.
Censorship. Amazon has gone the way of woke as have so many others, Disney included, etc. Disgusting! You can still find the book on abebooks.com,...
Definitely no paint! Beautiful patina!!!
Happy Birthday! One of my five cats just had two little fur balls. You are welcome to one of 'em when old enough to leave mama :angelic: ...[ATTACH]
Love the print! Frame seems ok, but acid free backing/materials would be the way to go to avoid damage. I think Lithographer's suggestion is solid...
Definitely Marie
I would not have paid $5 for it (well, maybe if I wanted to discard the painting and wanted the frame.) If the... "artist" was trying to...
Auspicious object, wishing the owner a long life and probably gifted on the year of the rat, hence the rat/peach pair.
Nice!!! Is this one Victorian? :joyful::):pompous:[ATTACH]
Beautiful!!!! Love them!!!!
Thus is the right orientation of the character, in Chinese "wu" (武) --- the piece however does not look Chinese. [ATTACH]
Fine for me too, showing twice. :)
I'd love to have that one! Nice and a space saver for sure.
(good) fortune (福/fu) and longevity (寿/shou) Fish "yu" in Chinese is a homophone for the word "plenty" or "excess/surplus" --- two fish, "shuang...
I'd say it's a print. Remove it from the frame to start with. It's rather easy to tell if it's a print or original once you don't have the glass.
Love it!!!
So most likely people painted portraits of him and hung them in their homes or sold them, and had his portrait hanging on a wall, like those of...
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