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Subject:Re: Eight Basic Trigrams Bowl - Tongzhi Mark and Period?
Posted By: Bill H Sun, Sep 28, 2014
I have a Bagua pedestal bowl with Tongzhi mark that looks to be pretty compatible with yours. If both of them aren't mark & period, then they're probably Guangxu-era, when a lot of Tongzhi marks seem to have been applied to porcelains for what I'd guess was to honor his mother, the Empress Dowager Cixi, more than the late emperor himself.
The eyes on my Yin-Yang symbol also look like they're trying to compete with Betty Boop, while yours, if not based on tadpoles, seem to be modeled after the mysterious comma-shaped objects that show up in jade in Chinese tombs and as beads and jewels in Korea and Japan.
Best regards,
Bill H.
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