Thanks for the FB Roman & Chin-deciphering Chinese is no joke and things evolving/devolving (?) in language symbology. The new 'simplified...
100 window locks-modern,Victorian, and what are the books ?
Sweet-congrats Chinois, good eye .
That's right Mirana- I remember a Sherlock Holmes that mentioned 'The Great Game'-'The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British...
Except for Auric Goldfinger of course !
Hey-Just got another response from the Asian Art Board:eek: and they agree w/ you brilliant folks (of course) !!! 'I think this is Japanese, late...
Verrry intereshting ! Did they ever use gold staples for repairs :peeking::pompous::woot:?
Kind of a not so funny Seinfeld.It's about being the coolest richest person in High School measured in terms of...
Perceptive comment-'purposely vague'. We in the Western art world wouldn't do this even on a piece of 'factory art'-we'd put a pretend signature...
Thanks so much Kent ! My Asian Ceramics knowledge is close to zero, i just related the level of the work to my skill set. I did commercial art &...
It's a beauty Ghop. Have you seen that HBO show The Gilded Age ? The scenes filmed at the tennis club in Newport were a trip. You could've been in...
Seems the advanced level Translators (w/ some historical knowledge) are probably off making money.Damn precious thing to give away-they're...
Be nice if we could lure some dedicated hardcore collectors & scholars really fluent in Chinese & Japanese over here, if we could do it in a way...
Ditto-We just need more PHD's in Asiatic Art hanging around here ! PS-Not that every and each member doesn't always do their best,thanks all for that.
Sorry-wasn't aware this subject had been discussed 8 years ago.
I think given the intricate mysteries of the last 5,000 years of Asian Art,and the endlessly humongous amount of it our gang here seem to find in...
This 田 Japanese kanji could mean- “Blessed” and/or “Humble”-perhaps a Chinese blessing character for New Years. This character 示 (shì) could...
Not sure-just happy they talked to me. Any idea what 示 , 田 or their commonly used offspring 福 means ?
It is-More confused than ever by inscrutable Asian concepts:bored::drowning::oldman: huh ?
Wow-Just got a response from the Asian Art Forum :woot: sweeet ! Here tis-''The mark contains two of the elements 示 and 田 of the commonly used...
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