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Re: dragon sake cup

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Feb 13, 2016 (01:12 AM)

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Your dragon cup has a popular motif that was seen in tea wares and wine cups used around weddings in the early 20th century and later. The design often included both the dragon and phoenix. Your cup has a mark reading down and across from the top right as "Jiangxi Zhenpin" (江西珍品 - Jiangxi Precious Product). Here's a small jar, perhaps used as a tea caddy, in the Dragon-Phoenix motif with a four character mark of 鎮兼瓷社 (Zhen Lian Ci She), possibly translatable as "Town Unified Porcelain Cooperative", with "Town" (Zhen) being Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province. This type of mark probably would date the piece to the early 1950s, before factories were fully regimented and assigned numbers.

Best regards,

Bill H.



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