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Subject:Chinese Cylinder Vases - Year Made?
Posted By: escmode Sat, May 25, 2019 IP: 92.237.174.61 Hello, it's my first post here... nice to meet you all! I've just started an online vintage store, so it's great to have a resource like this. |
Subject:Re: Chinese Cylinder Vases - Year Made?
Posted By: Bill H Sun, May 26, 2019 These are transfer-decorated pieces, possibly made at one of the Hong Kong factories in the late 20th century or subsequently. A company named "WL" in Hong Kong was producing various transfer motifs on crackle-glazed blanks in the 1990's and later, but this is not to say your cylindrical vases weren't made by another shop there, in Macao or on the Mainland. Both of these vases have apocryphal base-marks of "Made during the Qianlong Reign of the Great Qing Dynasty" (Da Qing Qianlong Nian Zhi - 大清乾隆年製). |
Subject:Re: Chinese Cylinder Vases - Year Made?
Posted By: Martin Michels Sun, May 26, 2019 Although the marks are hardly readable, there is enough to recognize these: |
Subject:Re: Chinese Cylinder Vases - Year Made?
Posted By: Patrick Sun, May 26, 2019 Thanks for the replies Bill & Martin - much appreciated! |
Subject:Re: Chinese Cylinder Vases - Year Made?
Posted By: Bill H Mon, May 27, 2019 Yes, both your vases have heavily-abraded six-character marks. Regarding the label, Google identifies A Beijing Junjian Co., Ltd., as a home improvement firm, but in a different section of Beijing. This sounds like a good candidate for the one that sold your vases, perhaps decades ago. There's a Holiday Inn Express now located not far from where the Junjian store used to be, which sounds like a high-rent tourist district. |
Subject:Re: Chinese Cylinder Vases - Year Made?
Posted By: Patrick Wed, May 29, 2019 Thanks Bill... that's really helpful. Although I couldn't open the link or find it in 'completed/sold' items. |
Subject:Re: Chinese Cylinder Vases - Year Made?
Posted By: Bill H Thu, May 30, 2019 Would appear that the auction for my link was removed, perhaps on completion. Your first link looks to show items from the same factory or one making the same type items from the same kind of crackle-glaze material. The two pieces on the right and middle of the photo showing base-marks have the same kind of Qianlong stamp as the abraded ones on yours. The mark on the left-hand item also is Qianlong but in seal script. |
Subject:Re: Chinese Cylinder Vases - Year Made?
Posted By: Bill H Thu, May 30, 2019 The eBay link that wouldn't work popped up again on my browser courtesy of Google or somebody else's Ad-flood program. Let's see if it works. Two days left til it finishes. |
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