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Subject:19th century Imperial Dragons chasing pearl-4 character blue mark
Posted By: Bridget Shakespeare Thu, Nov 25, 2021 IP: 86.147.232.148 I have a beautiful Chinese Bowl with a blue 4 character mark and 2 blue circles on the base. I saw it described as above. Can you please give me a translation of the characters. I have tried myself without success. kind regards thank you, |
Subject:Re: 19th century Imperial Dragons chasing pearl-4 character blue mark
Posted By: Bill H Thu, Nov 25, 2021 I believe your dish has an apocryphal mark of the first Ming emperor, reading "Made during the Hong Wu Reign" (Hong Wu Nian Zhi - 洪武年製), which ran from 1368 to 1398. You don't show enough detail of the piece to verify your 19th century date of manufacture. The Ming mark and what appears to be a crackle glaze under the dragon decoration makes me think it may be Republic period (1912-49) or a bit later. |
Subject:Re: 19th century Imperial Dragons chasing pearl-4 character blue mark
Posted By: Bridget Shakespeare Sat, Nov 27, 2021 Thank you so much for your information. I am attaching more photographs of the bowl. It does have a crackle glaze. Is this 20th century in your opinion, many thanks |
Subject:Re: 19th century Imperial Dragons chasing pearl-4 character blue mark
Posted By: Bill H Sun, Nov 28, 2021 I'd give you better than even odds that this dish is a product of the late 20th to 21st century. In addition to the crackle glaze, which indicates the dish is soft pottery and not high-fired porcelain, the base has been given a whitewash of opaque glaze meant to showcase the faux mark of the Kangxi period and could possibly cover damage on the base as well. The contending dragons and what I guess are surrounding cloud forms may have been painted over printed transfers, and the cloud forms also may have been alternately flipped to avoid detection as modern transfer printed appliques. |
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