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I purchased this jar at an estate sale for $14 and was told that the previous owner travled the world for more then 60 years

The base-mark on your transfer-decorated "Millefleurs" motif jar reads down and across from the top right in seal script as "Jingdezhen Zhi", or "Made at Jingdezhen", the famous Porcelain-making center in Jiangxi Province. I would opine that the jar was produced around the early third quarter of the 20th century, before the workshops at Jingdezhen were regimented and numbered in line with the Chinese Communist Party system of bookkeeping.

Auction houses and antique galleries tend to shun items like this, which are transfer decorated and lack the age to be called antiques. You might keep an eye on eBay prices for similar items for an idea of decorative value.

Here are views of a late 19th century Guangxu-period 9.95-inch millefleurs plate for comparison of pattern differences.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Thank you so much for your help, too bad I wasn't sitting on a 30 thousand dollar jar!

People like good stories.

"It was my grandmother's" might disregard an object's being a gift 2 years before her death.

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