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Subject:Re: Request help on Identifying Rooster Mark
Posted By: Bill Hardy Sat, Mar 04, 2023
The style of your rooster is rather distant from that of the late 19th-early 20th century, or late Qing-Republic period. The large mark on the right may read down and across from its top right as "高綮陶源/Gao qi tao yuan", translatable as "Lofty Embroidered Banner Porcelain Source". This name and internet searches point toward it being more likely used by a commercial business than a manufacturer of table wares, with Google producing multiple hits on Chinese restaurants using "Taoyuan/陶源 in their names but nothing with the full name or identifiable as I read it or associated with the name or term "高/Gao".
Chinese History tells its students that there were untold numbers of business that didn't survive the Japanese invasion and domestic revolution that preceded the PRC in 1949. So guesswork is a futile course.
If the forum backup is finished today, I'll send this with pictures of late Qing-Republic Rooster models.
Best regards,
Bill H.
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