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Subject:Please Help Reading Inscriptions & Seals Chinese Unknown Object
Posted By: Gary Wed, Dec 30, 2020 IP: 2a00:23c7:d20b:7801:
Please can anyone help identify what this Chinese porcelain block is?? and read the inscriptions and seals,, it's approx 4 inches long, Many Thanks.







Subject:Re: Please Help Reading Inscriptions & Seals Chinese Unknown Object
Posted By: I.Nagy Wed, Dec 30, 2020
孤帆遠影碧空盡
惟見長江天際流

丁亥春
作於珠山

*All I see is your lonely sail against the distant blue,
The Yangtze River flows to the sky's edge

On Spring of the Year of Fire-Pig (2007)
Painted in Zhushan

The coded ID markings cannot be deciphered,
It's practical use could be only paperweight.


*Citation from Li Bai's famous poem titled "Seeing off Meng Haoran for Guangling at Yellow Crane Tower" (黄鶴樓送孟浩然之廣陵)


With regards,
I.Nagy

Subject:Re: Please Help Reading Inscriptions & Seals Chinese Unknown Object
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Dec 30, 2020
It's made like a miniature pillow, perhaps for use as a scroll-weight. Inscription ends in two lines indicating it was 'Made in the Dinghai year at Zhushan' (another name for Jingdezhen). Perhaps this was the Dinghai that fell in 1947, during the Republic of China (ROC) Period, but 2007 is a possibility as such easily marketable wares were being stressed by the People's Republic.


Best regards,

Bill H.

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