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<p>[QUOTE="georgeingraham, post: 3775956, member: 6261"]Trying to understand the event or storyline the potter was trying to show on this 1920 Shiwan vase.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not know if understanding it means looking at these characters as pictograph images to create a storyline, or if the story can be revealed if translated to modern Chinese characters.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found an exact pictograph match for one, "spring water flowing from a cave or from the mouth of a spring". A second pictograph may be "breaking through soil" (the lower part of the one pictograph).</p><p><br /></p><p>Either way, I do not know what I am doing or how to understand the meaning or story behind the motifs on this piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would like very much to know, and will greatly appreciate any help<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ow7lKZM.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="georgeingraham, post: 3775956, member: 6261"]Trying to understand the event or storyline the potter was trying to show on this 1920 Shiwan vase. I do not know if understanding it means looking at these characters as pictograph images to create a storyline, or if the story can be revealed if translated to modern Chinese characters. I found an exact pictograph match for one, "spring water flowing from a cave or from the mouth of a spring". A second pictograph may be "breaking through soil" (the lower part of the one pictograph). Either way, I do not know what I am doing or how to understand the meaning or story behind the motifs on this piece. Would like very much to know, and will greatly appreciate any help:) [img]https://i.imgur.com/ow7lKZM.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
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