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Subject:Re: famille rose rice bowl
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Jan 21, 2017
The mark reads across and down from the right in three horizontal lines as:
西江 Jiangxi (Province)
順義胡 Hu Yishun (Person & Factory Name)
品出 Chupin (Product Made)
In context, it can be read simply as Product made by Hu Yishun in Jiangxi. The same information is contained in three vertical stacks to the left of the bold inscription. Those four characters form the following popular expression, also read from the left:
玉如人美 - Meiren Ru Yu - "Belles having beauty like jade"
A character search via Google turned up hits sourced to chinabogu.com, a Mainland China online repository of information on porcelain. One snippet from a mark described Hu Yishun as a painter mainly active during the Republic-era (1912-1949), while others described this same Jiangxi-type name mark with Hu's name in the middle. I infer from your bowl's enamels and gilding that it probably dates from circa 1930 to mid-century.
Best regards,
Bill H.
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