Hi Geoff
Some very interesting postings !
Also good to see someone using my data base before posting and/or asking questions about Modern artists (at long last.... !
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The DB closes the loop on a lot of the different names artists use (original name / name adopted later in life / various pen names used at different periods / name used as "master" of a studio / etc) and because I have sourced information from several different art books - some of which are only in Chinese and therefore difficult for non- Chinese to read - I have been able to cross-check the information.
The new Ji School Book contains a wealth of accurate data on names , but it is all in Chinese. It took me about 3 days working with my PA to pull out all the name data and get the names into correct Pin Yin . Plus at least another week to encode it all into the DB .
Cheers
Peter
PS : I once a 100 x Children by Liu Shouben dated 2001 which I bought at a Bonhams auction in HK, but I decided to sell it because there are serious questions about who actually painted LSB's bottles after about 2000, which is roughly when LSB started signing on his students' bottles . Long story ... but basically it was noticed in the early 2000's by the S'Pore collectors that far too many LSB bottles were being sold in S'Pore for them all to have been painted personally by LSB. This would also explain why there's hardly a single Jing School artist of any fame to have emerged since about 2000 - LSB did not allow them to paint in their own names, so eventually I guess they almost all gave up painting .
Do a search in the DB of all artists with the School code {B} = the Jing School . It's staggering to see how few there are, especially compared with the literally hundreds of Ji School artists = code {J}
PPS : My only 100 x bottle now is 100 x turtles ( or tortoises) - I only bought it because it was so unusual !
