<p>the top seal is “張爰㞢印”, you may compare the small seal character:</p>
<p><a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E5%BC%B5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=張</a></p>
<p><a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E7%88%B0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=爰</a></p>
<p><a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E3%9E%A2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=㞢</a></p>
<p><a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E5%8D%B0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=印</a></p>
<p>roughly, it means the seal of “張爰”</p>
<p>the bottom one is “大千”</p>
<p><a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E5%A4%A7" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=大</a></p>
<p><a href="http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E5%8D%83" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=千</a></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Dai-chien" rel="nofollow noreferrer">張大千</a>, a famous artist in the last century </p>
<p>the top five bigger characters are :番女掣厖啚 (last character, actually is a variant not yet have a unicode code point)</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/z2CxP.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/z2CxP.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt?quote_code=QTAwNzM5LTAwMQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt?quote_code=QTAwNzM5LTAwMQ</a></p>
<p>the following characters are:</p>
<p>甲x嘉平月蜀郡張爰大千父</p>
<p>“嘉平月” is the last month of the chinese calendar, roughly mid-december to mid-february</p>
<p>“蜀郡” is sichuan</p>
<p>“張爰大千父” is name of the author</p>
<p>甲x, well it must be the one of the sexagenary cycle. unfortunately i can’t recognise the x at this moment </p>

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<p>Please can anyone help identify what is written on this painting and the accompanying marks / seals please? I’ve tried to research this but the amount of information is overwhelming! Any help Gratefully received! Thank you.
<img src="https://i.sstatic.net/RSDih.jpg" alt="enter image description here" />!
<img src="https://i.sstatic.net/kNLxN.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></p>

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if you suspect this painting is valuable, contact the sotheby’s or christie’s
水巷孑蠻
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Wow, thank you so much for such an in depth reply! So helpful, I really appreciate it!
Caroline Overton
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Help with Chinese painting marks please
# Help with Chinese painting marks please

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-09-20)

Please can anyone help identify what is written on this painting and the accompanying marks / seals please? I’ve tried to research this but the amount of information is overwhelming! Any help Gratefully received! Thank you.
![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/RSDih.jpg)!
![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/kNLxN.jpg)

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: if you suspect this painting is valuable, contact the sotheby’s or christie’s  
> **username_0**: Wow, thank you so much for such an in depth reply! So helpful, I really appreciate it!  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-09-20. Score: 2

the top seal is “張爰㞢印”, you may compare the small seal character:

[http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=張](http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E5%BC%B5)

[http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=爰](http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E7%88%B0)

[http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=㞢](http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E3%9E%A2)

[http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=印](http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E5%8D%B0)

roughly, it means the seal of “張爰”

the bottom one is “大千”

[http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=大](http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E5%A4%A7)

[http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=千](http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=%E5%8D%83)

[張大千](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Dai-chien), a famous artist in the last century

the top five bigger characters are :番女掣厖啚 (last character, actually is a variant not yet have a unicode code point)

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/z2CxP.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/z2CxP.png)

<https://dict.variants.moe.edu.tw/variants/rbt/word_attribute.rbt?quote_code=QTAwNzM5LTAwMQ>

the following characters are:

甲x嘉平月蜀郡張爰大千父

“嘉平月” is the last month of the chinese calendar, roughly mid-december to mid-february

“蜀郡” is sichuan

“張爰大千父” is name of the author

甲x, well it must be the one of the sexagenary cycle. unfortunately i can’t recognise the x at this moment


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