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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on May 8, 2016 0:01:59 GMT
is anyone on here familiar with traditional Asian art? johnnyh maybe? I found these two pieces at a local garage sale.... they're hand painted on what feels like tissue paper. any info or direction would be extremely appreciated. are they Chinese? Japanese? who or what are they supposed to represent etc. just looking for a place to start   |
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May 9, 2016 17:35:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 17:35:47 GMT
Will pm you email mate send me proper copies/pics and I will see if can find anything out. Not my bag so cannot help with opinion it let me check also in Tokyo next week so will see if anyone there might know
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May 9, 2016 17:57:07 GMT
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Post by pingoo on May 9, 2016 17:57:07 GMT
At the first glance, it looks chinese.
No idea of who they might be though..
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on May 9, 2016 18:43:46 GMT
someone said Buddhist guardians perhaps, circa turn of the century
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Post by Still Hate Thatcher on May 9, 2016 21:33:33 GMT
Some of the creatures appear to be Tengu which would possibly make them Japanese.
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on May 9, 2016 23:32:51 GMT
some better pictures... still trying to figure out if it's ink or paint, and what type of paper it is too   |
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Post by alexdb on May 10, 2016 7:41:13 GMT
If they have red stamps on back of front then they must be chinese. My ex wife was chinese and her father was artistic painter in China. I got some pieces of his work here hanging but the ex was of opinion to took that with her after divorce. Its unfortunate, but it sure looked great. It was also painted on tissue paper and hanging on two wooden sticks at both ends.
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Post by sakyamuni on May 10, 2016 11:21:45 GMT
from the way they look, they represent Shen Tu and Yu Lei, the door gods that were popular in china before Tang era. They are characters from the classic book, Mountains and seas. The position and beards are similar.
They are less famous than the more recent Qin Shubao and Weichi Jingde that you see now in most of the temples, but basically they have the same role. There are two because traditional doors had two panels, in order to avoid the problem that if there is only one god on both panels, when the door is opened the god is divided by two and looses his power.... This representation of them is not really accurate if you follow Taoist rules, but you can see that this is what influenced the artist who drew them. This is not a religious piece but more something influenced by Taoist culture.
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on May 11, 2016 22:11:20 GMT
thanks everyone!
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