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Subject:Re: markings on bowl set with landscape scenes
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Dec 09, 2015
The mark reads down and across from the top right as 'Jiujiang Zhendong Gongsi', the 'Zhendong Company of Jiujiang', with Jiujiang being a city on the Yangtze about 75 miles Northwest of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province.
There's a goodly amount of porcelain with this mark on the Chinese internet, some of it said to be Republic-period and other described as modern, the latter including a pair of vases at the link below. There are a couple of marks that contain Jiujiang in Gerald Davison's 'New & Revised Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics', one of them mentioning a 'Daxing Company (Daxing Gongsi - 大興公司), but nary a 'Zhendong' firm, which name literally means 'Shake the East'. Until some archaeologist comes up with a Zhendong Gongsi shard in the Republic Level of the middens at Jingdezhen, I think I'll go with the 'Modern' call on dating.
Best regards,
Bill H.
URL Title :JiujiangZhendongGongsi
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