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Recently my mother found her chinese bowls, she once recieved them as a gift. We also have other things, like a teapot and spoons.
I was wondering if someone could tell me a bit more about the markings?
We also have a bowl same as these ones but with a very different blue mark.

hello, the mark could be find in the Qianlong list. Very beautiful bowl.

The bottom bears a mark of "Wan Yu" (玩玉 - "Jade Trinket"). While the mark was used during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722), your rice pattern bowls with painted and gilt embellishments probably are no older than the early 20th century and perhaps were made much more recently.

This is a very popular Chinese dish design and has been around since at least the late Qing period, albeit with variations. Here's a Guangxu mark & period presentation bowl about the same size as yours with interior decoration of an egret in a lotus marsh and a wish for "Successive Promotions" (Yi Lu Lian Sheng - 弌路連陞). The upper rim has a "Three Friends of Winter" motif on the outside, while the inside features "Bats Amidst Clouds" and the base is bordered by lotus leaves.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Hi,

Thank you for your help.
One of the bowls has the same design but looks a bit different, and has another mark on the bottom.

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Mia

This mark, when flipped 90 degrees clockwise, reads down and across from the right as "Zhongguo Jingdezhen Zhi", "Made in China at Jingdezhen". Definitely a late 20th century mark.

Best regards,

Bill H.

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