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Subject:Chinese vase identifying with base marks
Posted By: MR Thu, Apr 04, 2019 IP: 78.149.54.213

Chinese vase identifying with base marks







Subject:Re: Chinese vase identifying with base marks
Posted By: Jonathan Fri, Apr 05, 2019

Nice piece. Ming Mark But Qing dynasty. Nicely drawn dragons. If you want an estimate on the value let me know.

Subject:Re: Chinese vase identifying with base marks
Posted By: MR Sat, Apr 06, 2019

Hi, thanks for the information, the value isn’t too important as I don’t plan on selling it soon because it has a sloppy glue repair on the side you can’t see (one piece, clean brake with no missing pieces other than fragments of surface enamel), it needs repairing professionally, you can see it’s a patch on the left hand side of this photo



Subject:Re: Chinese vase identifying with base marks
Posted By: Bill H Sun, Apr 07, 2019

This vase has a type of dragon with "crosshatch & dot" scales, that are associated almost exclusively with Chinese dragon porcelains painted after 1850. The six-character Ming Jiajing reign mark is written in a style I could find only in association with reproductions made during the Qing Kangxi period; however, the only Kangxi-era example I could find was enclosed in blue double circles. Also, compared to the neatly written Kangxi example, the mark seen here seems to have been rather laboriously drawn, with mid-stroke brush starts and restarts evident in some characters, giving an overall unsteady look to the calligraphy. This issue and the artificial, repetitive appearance of the brown "flaws" in the white glaze on the foot give me pause to wonder whether the base could have been restored and remarked at some point, perhaps to hide a drill-hole from prior use as a lamp.

Best regards,

Bill H.

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Subject:Re: Chinese vase identifying with base marks
Posted By: MR Sun, Apr 07, 2019

Hi Bill, thanks, here’s a photo of the inside if it helps you in any way. Also if it helps, from a purely physical touch perspective, the glaze feels in-keeping with the rest of the glaze.

Martyn





Subject:Re: Chinese vase identifying with base marks
Posted By: Bill H Mon, Apr 08, 2019

The new photo shows no evidence inside the vase to support my drill-hole theory, suggesting observations regarding the base could just relate to the particular glaze and/or kiln temperatures. I suppose some distortion evident in the mark also could be due to shrinkage or crawl in the glaze.

Best regards,

Bill H.


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