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<p>The seal pointing to the artist name says 任可澄. In particular, you're very unlikely to find out the last character 「澄」 through a simple search:</p>
<ul>
<li>The right hand side of the character 「澄」 in the seal is actually 「⿱豆廾」, which is a <a href="http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/jinwen?kaiOrder=2716" rel="nofollow noreferrer">variant shape of 「登」 sometimes appearing in bronze inscriptions</a>.</li>
<li>「澄」 is not a character appearing in bronze inscriptions, so the character in the seal is a modern character <em>hypothetically back-projected to a bronze inscription form</em>.</li>
</ul>

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2020-05-26T23:28:51.543Z
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dROOOze
<p>Is someone able to help translate the text (calligraphy?) and seal on this scroll?</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/XSatW.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/XSatW.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a>
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<p>I had a go at translating the seal using <a href="http://www.guoxuedashi.com/zidian/xz/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">guoxuedashi</a> and <a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/</a> but wasn't sure how to group the individual elements into characters. Thought the right half might be just 匕玉? Couldn't make any sense of the left half.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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2020-05-26T16:53:48.417Z
盈懷贈蘭荃 from a poem, [唐 韩愈]《送灵师》, wrote in 戌寅秋, the year 戌寅 could be 1998、1938、1878......, I can't recognize the author name and the seal.
sfy
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2020-05-27T01:28:05.817Z
it should be “戊寅”. there’s no “戌寅” in the sexagenary cycle.
水巷孑蠻
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2020-09-02T13:33:52.027Z
Sorry - I made a mistake. The second character is 可 and not 石.
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Translation of Chinese Scroll and Seal
# Translation of Chinese Scroll and Seal

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-05-26)

Is someone able to help translate the text (calligraphy?) and seal on this scroll?

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/XSatW.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/XSatW.jpg)
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/zHang.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/zHang.jpg)

I had a go at translating the seal using [guoxuedashi](http://www.guoxuedashi.com/zidian/xz/) and [http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/](http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/) but wasn't sure how to group the individual elements into characters. Thought the right half might be just 匕玉? Couldn't make any sense of the left half.

Thanks

**Tags:** translation, seal, calligraphy

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: 盈懷贈蘭荃 from a poem, [唐 韩愈]《送灵师》, wrote in 戌寅秋, the year 戌寅 could be 1998、1938、1878......, I can't recognize the author name and the seal.  
> **username_2**: it should be “戊寅”. there’s no “戌寅” in the sexagenary cycle.  
> **username_3**: Sorry - I made a mistake. The second character is 可 and not 石.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2020-05-26. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/Osxd4m.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/Osxd4m.png)

The seal pointing to the artist name says 任可澄. In particular, you're very unlikely to find out the last character 「澄」 through a simple search:

* The right hand side of the character 「澄」 in the seal is actually 「⿱豆廾」, which is a [variant shape of 「登」 sometimes appearing in bronze inscriptions](http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/jinwen?kaiOrder=2716).
* 「澄」 is not a character appearing in bronze inscriptions, so the character in the seal is a modern character *hypothetically back-projected to a bronze inscription form*.


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