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Subject:Interesting brass seal on cloisonne - CHINA & characters - Translation help needed
Posted By: beadiste Fri, May 15, 2015 IP: 206.174.69.67
Could someone please translate this?
I really hate being illiterate in Chinese, but it's not something I can remedy quickly...




Subject:"Bei Jing [?] He Xing Zi Zao Lang Pen - someone in Bei Jing personally made this enamel basin?
Posted By: beadiste Wed, May 20, 2015
The character following Bei Jing is - ?

Subject:Re: "Bei Jing [?] He Xing Zi Zao Lang Pen - someone in Bei Jing personally made this enamel basin?
Posted By: rat Thu, May 21, 2015
Dong 東 "east". Donghexing (T'ung Ho Hsing?) is apparently the name of the Beijing company that made this, and not as a subcontractor (自造)

Subject:Thank you!
Posted By: beadiste Fri, May 22, 2015
It's certainly a bit awkward to be interested in Chinese 20th century cloisonne and yet be illiterate in Chinese. I don't see any way to remedy this except by years of study...

Subject:Re: Thank you!
Posted By: rat Sat, May 23, 2015
It's hard to become an expert in anything without a lot of study though...

Subject:A pre-1928 date?
Posted By: beadiste Thu, May 21, 2015
Bei Jing Che He Xing Zi Zao Lang Pen

Lang appears to be written in an old-fashioned style, and because "Bei Jing" is used instead of "Peiping," perhaps this piece dates either to before 1928 (when the capital was moved to Nanjing), instead of post-1949?

Che Hexing is a name?

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