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Chu Chen's explanation was well-founded. Combined with his past experience, everyone believed his judgment was probably correct.
At this point, Zhao Qirui said, "But why doesn't this painting have a date? How can we determine when Jin Nong created it?"
"That's not entirely clear."
Chu Chen shook his head before continuing, "However, we should be able to determine the period from the style. In his later years, Jin Nong's bamboo paintings became much more restrained. He even painted bamboo in double outlines, using steady strokes that combined the sinews and bones of iron-wire drawing with the variations of cress-stem lines. None of that was something an ordinary painter could accomplish."
"But judging from the painting's rather uninhibited style and its brushwork, it should have been painted during Jin Nong's early period of painting bamboo. Compared with his later, mature works, it's certainly somewhat inferior. Still, this painting also shows the changes in Jin Nong's creative style. In that respect, it's quite rare."
"Oh!" Zhao Qirui's eyes lit up, and he asked excitedly, "Achen, do you think this might have caused others to misjudge it and assume that Jin Nong had hired someone else to paint it for him?"
Chu Chen was slightly taken aback. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I can't say there's no chance of that, but judging from the quality of this painting, the odds shouldn't be very high."
Zhao Qirui chuckled. "As long as there's a chance, that's enough. Maybe we'll get lucky and pick up a bargain."
"If there's a chance, of course we have