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Subject:translation?
Posted By: Janine Taft Fri, Apr 04, 2014 IP: 69.205.223.23 Can anyone translate the characters in this picture? I have a friend who speaks Mandarin and she could not translate it, but sent me to her friend who speaks Cantonese. The woman who speaks Cantonese thought this might be very, very old Chinese but couldn't translate it either. |
Subject:Re: translation?
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Apr 05, 2014 These are pseudo characters, occasionally found on the base of European chinoiserie. If anything, they might "translate" to "fake ivory", as the art that sits on such a stand is typically a resin casting, as apparently is the stand itself in this case. |
Subject:Re: translation?
Posted By: mikeoz Sat, Apr 05, 2014 If you bothered to show us the object, we could comment with more detail. |
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