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Subject:famille rose rice bowl
Posted By: david Fri, Jan 20, 2017 IP: 2607:fea8:1d5f:fe45:

Hello, Can someone please tell me if this 4 5/8" dia rice bowl is Taisho or Showa period? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! David.







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.

Subject:Re: famille rose rice bowl
Posted By: david Sun, Jan 22, 2017

Thanx Bill H and mikeoz! David.

Subject:Re: famille rose rice bowl
Posted By: Bill H Sun, Jan 22, 2017

I was thinking of my "other left" when talking about how to read the bold inscription, which is written and read from the right in the traditional Chinese manner.

Now back to my daydream,

Bill H.

Subject:Re: famille rose rice bowl
Posted By: mikeoz Sat, Jan 21, 2017

Neither Taisho or Showa period (which relate to Japan), but late Qing or early Republic era, as this is a Chinese bowl.


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