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Subject:What is this mark? Old? New?
Posted By: Jon Tue, Mar 02, 2010 IP: 174.52.74.142
Can anyone please read this mark for me? I am interested to know what it says. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.





Subject:Re: What is this mark? Old? New?
Posted By: Arjan Thu, Mar 04, 2010
Hi Jon,

The mark says "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" but the piece is (rather)new...

Regards,

Arjan

Subject:Re: What is this mark? Old? New?
Posted By: Bill H Thu, Mar 04, 2010
The six-character apocryphal mark says 'Made during the Qianlong reign of the great Qing dynasty' (da qing qianlong nian zhi). Since the piece looks like it is transfer-decorated the earliest it could date is to the 1930's, though there's a great possibility of it being post-1950.

Best regards,

Bill H.

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