I have a watercolor print by Homer Winslow with signature block "Homer Winslow N.A. 1892 - beneath that is a notation "This will do the business" that appears to be in the same script. Is this unique? How can I tell if this is an original? What would the value be on this painting? Thank you.
I did a little more digging - took the paper back off and this is a print from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, printed in 1984. See additional photos.
Clearly a statue of the traditional Chinese god of longevity transliterated most commonly as Shou-xing. The top of the staff was apparently broken off and glued back on. We were told that the seal making it legal for export may have been fraudulent, meaning that it could have been older than 1882. I found this in a tiny shop built into the old city wall at Nanjing. My group was one of the first allowed into China after the Cultural Revolution, and it seemed that vendors didn't know what their stuff was worth on the US market.