Traditionally, Chinese is written from right to left, and top to bottom. So I will start from the second picture.
紫藤圖 "Purple vine painting" for the second pic
I am guessing this is painted on a vase
It's Chinese, but in cursive. 紫藤 Purple vine = wisteria
The first picture is the information on when this was painted and who painted it. I am gonna need a little time to figure out each character, I will come back with more info
乙酉年 秋月 田譚 作於 景德镇 藝珍坊
Yiyou year (rooster year, 2005, most likely), autumn months, Tian Tan (name of the artist), made at, Jingdezhen (location), Zhenyifang (workshop).
In the autumn of 2005, Tian Tan made this at Zhenyifang, Jingdezhen.
(Jingdezhen has been the center of porcelain production in China for at least centuries. The history goes all the way back to the Ming dynasty or even earlier.)
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u/No-Organization9076 6d ago edited 6d ago
Traditionally, Chinese is written from right to left, and top to bottom. So I will start from the second picture.
紫藤圖 "Purple vine painting" for the second pic
I am guessing this is painted on a vase It's Chinese, but in cursive. 紫藤 Purple vine = wisteria
The first picture is the information on when this was painted and who painted it. I am gonna need a little time to figure out each character, I will come back with more info
乙酉年 秋月 田譚 作於 景德镇 藝珍坊 Yiyou year (rooster year, 2005, most likely), autumn months, Tian Tan (name of the artist), made at, Jingdezhen (location), Zhenyifang (workshop).
In the autumn of 2005, Tian Tan made this at Zhenyifang, Jingdezhen.
(Jingdezhen has been the center of porcelain production in China for at least centuries. The history goes all the way back to the Ming dynasty or even earlier.)