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Hello everyone, I hope you can shed some light on this! I picked this book up off of a Free Books shelf at a local library, and folded up in the middle was this painting.

It has some stains, which is unfortunate, but it doesn’t appear to be a print. There’s nothing on the back other than the paint showing through. It’s stamped, so hopefully the artist can be identified. Thank you for any help or translations!

Edit: SORRY I didn’t rotate the image properly. 99% sure it’s meant to be landscape

Good evening,

I have this robe rack that I have been wondering what period/era and-or possible date range it may have been manufactured in. I’ve tried asking the r/antique subreddit, but got no responses unfortunately.

I don’t really know enough to try and date range it myself. The person I purchased it from didn’t know either, and the person *they* purchased it from ram an antique shop but did not have any paperwork of the provenance for the rack. I do wonder though if the rack has maybe been modified since it’s initial creation—so maybe parts of it are from ____ and other parts are maybe newer in age?

Thank you to everyone forward r any help you can offer.

My boss passed away and she had this hanging on her wall. It’s large, it’s beautiful and it’s at least 75 years old. Does anyone know who or where could advise me on this in Colorado? I have it, I want to know its origin, what it says and its approximate value. I would be very grateful and thank you in advance.

Can anyone read the red symbols, please?

Pickup from a local sale, any information is greatly appreciated

Dm me. I can ship. @misal4341 on ebay.

I have a Japanese brass charger plate approximately 10-12 inches diameter with a hand-engraved landscape scene featuring Mount Fuji, a pagoda, pine trees, and a sailing vessel. Quality of engraving appears to be hand-done with fine detail work on the pine needles and pagoda crosshatching.

There is a two-character kanji signature engraved into the face of the plate near the lower center. I believe it may read 沖長 (Okinaga?) but I am not confident in this reading.

Questions:

**1.**	Can anyone confirm or correct the kanji reading?  
**2.**	Is this a known Meiji/Taisho period metalwork artist name?  
**3.**	Any guidance on attribution or value would be appreciated.

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I have this picture of a rabbit stamped with a signature, it's like some kind of Asian art (don't want to offend another race and not fluent in whichever language it is so don't judge me.) I really want to know if anyone has come across something like it and what it says/where can I find more information? Thanks in advance.

I am wishing to more of the history of this Japanese painting. I am posting photos of the red Seal, The panel which is a painting on a hard surfaced paper with silk borders which wrap around a wooden frame which is inside a wood frame without any finish and a brass hanging piece at the top. I have been lead to believe it is Taiko-bari drum mount of a Chabako-B屏風 (Tea-Box / Small Hanging Screen Panel) or a masterfully preserved byōbu (folding screen) leaf that was professionally re-mounted for a tea room or Western home in the late 19th or early 20th century. I know it one of the 8 views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers and the poetry reads:

平沙落鴈 Wild geese descend on the sandy shore

騾者如飛 Mule drivers fly like the wind

雇奴高 Hired slaves are tall

呌 Shout

蘆岸白沙 White sand on the reed-lined bank

潔淨不 Clean and spotless

可唾也？ Can one spit on it?

Is the seal 2 characters that read 野隠 Yě yǐn Nogaku? Since it is Japanese is the artist Nogaku? Or perhaps, as has been suggested, it is 4 characters? I have drawn the seal myself in another photo as I to what I see.

Also can the probable age of the painting be determined?

What can be determined if anything from the brass fitting at the top of the frame?

Believe its a archaistic bronze Chinese hu vessel?

Hi there - I am posting this piece with hopes that some kind folks can help me with any information or insight on this piece. I’ve done my best to research it on my own and have gotten some very basic knowledge of the content, the matting style, etc. but don’t know much else.

I am unaware of the origins, but it wound up in America sometime in the mid 20th century.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Guys, what can you say this shivan figurine?

Hand carved; approx 3” tall x 2” wide and 1” deep. Weighs 199 grams, unknown stone, not resin (tested) was told it is from probably the late 1800’s or early 1900’s. I can’t read the bottom or find anything that can read the four separate seals. Decorated with carved Qianlong Tongbao coin, zodiac wheel, Wang Wei poem, openwork dragon, and landscape scenes; anyone able to translate the seals? Or tell what type of stone it is. Thank you greatly.