100% hand-painted.
28¾"
28¾"
For the best possible display, this portrait should be professionally framed.
A frame is not included with this artwork!
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Approximate Measurements
Artwork Panel: 63.8cm x 63.7cm ≈ 25" x 25"
Silk/Brocade Border: 73cm x 72.8cm ≈ 28¾" x 28¾"
Information about how this Asian painting is mounted
Goodness of Flowers, Fullness of Moon
The Chinese title is 花好月圓 which literally translates as, "Flowers [are] Good, Moon [is] Round (full)." This phrase is commonly used when offering good wishes to newly-married couples. This phrase represents the best of moments when the flowers bloom or during the full moon.
The characters after that read, 丁酉年 which is an ancient way to indicate this was painted in 2017. The artist signed it, 袁野畫, or "Yuan Ye Painted" (畫 is a character that in this context means, "painted by").
Materials used are watercolors on handmade xuan paper. The painting was then mounted with a copper-brown-colored silk brocade matting/border.
About the Artist:
This was hand painted by 
(Yuan Ye) who lives near Guilin in Southern China. Most of his paintings feature fish which are his specialty.
This item was listed or modified
Aug 24th, 2018
Gary's random little things about China:
Where's my soy sauce?
When you sit down to eat at a restaurant in China, you will almost never see a bottle of soy sauce on the table like you might at a Chinese restaurant in the USA or UK.
In Chinese cooking culture, soy sauce is a seasoning reserved for use in the kitchen.
The fact that soy sauce can be found at Chinese restaurants outside of China probably comes from westerner confusion between Japanese food and Chinese food.
The most popular Japanese food outside of Japan is sushi, which of course is always served with soy sauce. This is the most likely reason that soy sauce migrated out of the kitchen on onto the table at your Chinese restaurant in the west.
