Translation of a plate

[imron]

Ah ok, now I see it. Initially I didn't look at the enlarged image, just the small thumbnail, and I didn't see that the middle vertical stroke (what becomes the right-hand vertical stroke of 耳) extends so far. It kind of disappears in the thumbnail.

[roddy]

Ah ok, now I see it. Initially I didn't look at the enlarged image, just the small thumbnail, and I didn't see that the middle vertical stroke (what becomes the right-hand vertical stroke of 耳) extends so far. It kind of disappears in the thumbnail.

Oooh, there's a bigger one

Ok, I see what everyone was talking about now.

[linlu]

the characater is 取

and the handwriting is not good.

[trien27]

it's a combination of characters. qu[to take: character as a whole]? ren[person: 2 strokes in middle]? Maybe it's an attempt to duplicate an existing ancient Chinese character into something fancy[to please someone who's oblivious to the Chinese language]? Badly modified character. Or maybe the creator is trying to combine different Chinese calligraphic styles into one?