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Hello -
Can anyone help identify or date this ink owl painting? The chop mark is very faded...
It is about 38" x 58"

An interesting object.
Your painting is very much destroyed. It has lost up to 70-80% percent of its surface to bugs, grasing layer after layer of it. A slow processing damage you rarely will find in paintings of the 18th century to that extend. We only can see the general outlook any longer.

Fortunately I had to attribute the seal once already and know it, it belongs to Soga Nichokuan.

Here is an example of the seal in the MFA: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/26029/hawk?ctx=8fe2b22b-1809-4047-be46-a45b3c295e44&idx=3

Here is an owl in the MET:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/77198

And here is especially interesting even a screen with that particular shape in the Met too:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/53008

Thank you so much for your help - very interesting info!

It could be either Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
It could be about a 100- 150 years old.
The seal print is illegible

With regards,
I.Nagy

Thank you so much!

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