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Subject:Help authentication: chinese bowl signature
Posted By: Ana Wed, Apr 19, 2023 IP: 89.220.189.197
Hi everyone! Hope you are all having a great day.

I write here to seek some help to identify a chinese bowl that I have. I do not know if it is fake, o a replica, or authentic. I have been investigating on my own but my knowledge is not enough for this. In this case this bowl has only 2 symbols in its bottom, not 4, just 2, handpainted.

Could someone please give me some information, ideas, advice..? I have seem some bowls with this same design but with different signatures. In the picture i put the signature in two different perspective as I dont know the right way to read it.

Thank you!



Subject:Re: Help authentication: chinese bowl signature
Posted By: Bill H Thu, Apr 20, 2023
I believe your bowl with rice grain pattern dates from the late 19th-early 20th century. Your pictures of the mark are quite blurry, but I’ll take a leap of faith and say it’s probably “Jade Trinket“ (玩玉 -Wan Yu), a popular mark on such wares during that period. However, the blur makes the Yu/jade character look much like the Chinese numeral Five /五/Wu.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Subject:Re: Help authentication: chinese bowl signature
Posted By: Bill H Thu, Apr 20, 2023
Here are shots of a rice grain saucer from the same period and variation of the same mark from my collection.

Bill H.





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Subject:Re: Help authentication: chinese bowl signature
Posted By: Bill H Fri, Apr 21, 2023
Here's a link to a live auction result for the same type and mark rice grain bowl. Decoration looks quite similar to yours.






URL Title :Rice Grain Wan Yu Bowl


Subject:Re: Help authentication: chinese bowl signature
Posted By: Ana Fri, Apr 21, 2023
Thank you so much for all the information Bill! I definitely think my bowl symbols are the ones you said and actually it is a blurry picture because the symbol is quite blurry itself.

I will check the auction website you sent me. Thank you so much!

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