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Subject:markings on bowl set with landscape scenes
Posted By: Charles Thu, Nov 19, 2015 IP: 70.16.197.140

I recently picked up a set of porcelain bowls with painted landscape scenes and gold trim on the rims. The scenes are all in the same style, but no two are identical. I would like to know if anyone knows where and when these were made. They are marked on the bottom, and those characters may be hand written but I can't tell for sure. Thank you.







Subject:Re: markings on bowl set with landscape scenes
Posted By: Y. E. Wong Tue, Dec 08, 2015

20th century Chinese piece. The text on the base is the company name (sorry that I don't spell it out for you in English):

Keyword: "九江振東公司"

Please check link of a similar piece (website is in Chinese).

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


Subject:Re: markings on bowl set with landscape scenes
Posted By: Charles Tue, Jan 12, 2016

Thanks for the info. These were part of a set brought back by a sailor who served just after the end of WWII, so they were probably new at the time.


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