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Subject:trying to identify if this seal add to the value of my piece of porcelain
Posted By: marc Thu, Apr 07, 2016 IP: 50.92.68.169
any thing about the time period, maker ,and what does the illustration on the vase mean. more pictures can be up loaded if need be. thanks advance







Subject:Re: trying to identify if this seal add to the value of my piece of porcelain
Posted By: snap Sun, Apr 10, 2016
The kaishu-script characters within the square double outline should be viewed as decoration, reading Qianlong reign made. The Qianlong emperor ruled in China 1736-1795. Do internet search to view images of genuine marks for that period. This reign's marks are about the most popular to put on porcelains in the past 130 years or so.

A reign mark is one of the last things to take seriously as indicating that a piece is imperial mark-and-period. Anyone can put such a mark on an object.

The decoration means loosely "hundred boys," auspicious for having boy children.

However, the totally-blue outlines, clothing, facial features and not-quite-right hair styles signal that this double-vase was made quite recently, probably for a wedding present. The little mistakes in the decoration might indicate this was a "factory second." The decoration may not have been in China.

I will leave it to wiser heads to suggest where this was decorated.

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