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<p>[QUOTE="JayBee, post: 2198140, member: 9259"]Regarding prints and originals, and the dot patterns:</p><p><br /></p><p>My experience is with reproductions of Chinese artworks and might not be relevant in this case, but as a fait-divers might be of use as a reference in other cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Chinese used to reproduce Chinese painting either using woodblock printing (douban technique, also called muban shuiyin) and coloban (colotype) and in both cases, no dot patterns are observable. Some were printed/reproduced on paper, some on silk.</p><p><br /></p><p>A large number of old paintings displayed in museums, are not originals, but colotype prints. Up to the mid 1990s some such reproductions were even available for purchase at the museum shops (Beijing, Shanghai, for example.)</p><p><br /></p><p>These days, with the ease of reproduction using digital scanning and photography, and access to high quality professional inkjet printing, these are also being used, and again, no dot patterns; and the result is an amazing lookalike that the untrained eye won't distinguish from the original, all the more because they can be printed on "Xuan zhi" (commonly called "rice paper" and other similar traditional support medium,) and backed and mounted using tradicional techniques.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Japanese have also been using similar techniques and technology for a long time to reproduced paintings and calligraphy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a side comment. Thought might be of interest to some on the forums.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JayBee, post: 2198140, member: 9259"]Regarding prints and originals, and the dot patterns: My experience is with reproductions of Chinese artworks and might not be relevant in this case, but as a fait-divers might be of use as a reference in other cases. The Chinese used to reproduce Chinese painting either using woodblock printing (douban technique, also called muban shuiyin) and coloban (colotype) and in both cases, no dot patterns are observable. Some were printed/reproduced on paper, some on silk. A large number of old paintings displayed in museums, are not originals, but colotype prints. Up to the mid 1990s some such reproductions were even available for purchase at the museum shops (Beijing, Shanghai, for example.) These days, with the ease of reproduction using digital scanning and photography, and access to high quality professional inkjet printing, these are also being used, and again, no dot patterns; and the result is an amazing lookalike that the untrained eye won't distinguish from the original, all the more because they can be printed on "Xuan zhi" (commonly called "rice paper" and other similar traditional support medium,) and backed and mounted using tradicional techniques. The Japanese have also been using similar techniques and technology for a long time to reproduced paintings and calligraphy. Just a side comment. Thought might be of interest to some on the forums.[/QUOTE]
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