Help With Chinese Silk Painting

[B. Smith]

Hello & thank you for looking.I was wondering if anyone could translate the characters & the signature of this silk painting I recently purchased.Thank you !

[Kamille]

秋枫: Autumn maple

[B. Smith]

Thank you so much!Do you happen to know the name of the artist by chance?

[Kamille]

Couldn't find it. It's just not on google (or very well hidden).

Chances are that this painting is from the 20th Century though: the text is written in simplified script (that's not a 100% reliable proof but it can give you an idea).

[Tiana]

The name of the artist should be in the seal just below 秋枫. The problem is we need someone who can read it

[Kamille]

There only seems to be one character in the seal, composed on the left of 萼 and on the right of 月 but there is no indication of such a character anywhere that I could check (or it's very well hidden). 

 

It might be two characters written too close to each other then. 萼月 seems to be an existing combination: I found 红萼月见草 on google. It's a plant and its latin name is Oenothera erythrosepala Borb. Might be a pseudonym...

[skylee]

That is 月華. Ref - http://www.zdic.net/z/22/zy/83EF.htm

[Kamille]

Well done! It's true that I wasn't very sure about how the [口*口] part could have been written in such a way, but 萼 was still the only character I could think of. I would never have thought that 華 could be written that way.

[889]

When trying to find seal character variants online, the GG-Art site is very good. They've got over 400 seals with 华, for example. Just remember to search with simple not traditional forms.

 

http://www.iguci.cn/seal/word.php?c=%E5%8D%8E