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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Help needed

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Apr 30, 2009 (09:49 PM)

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Hi Arjan,

In my opinion, keeping in mind how my focus primarily is on Chinese porcelains, the decoration looks convincingly Japanese on the stemcups, which have a typical "karakusa" (arabesque) design with a heaviness not usually employed by Chinese designers in their motifs.

It also applies to my thinking that the Chinese kilns didn't use transfer-decoration on a commercial scale until around the decade of the 1930's, at which time they were on the eve of World War II and not making a lot porcelain of the quality of these stemcups.

By the same token, I'm not sure it would have been politically correct for Chinese porcelain factories to copy Japanese designs like this right after the War, when I think these cups probably were made (circa the 3rd quarter, 20th century), at which time there was still quite a bit of anti-Japanese sentiment in China and elsewhere.

I wouldn't object to having this rationale nit-picked at all.

Regards,

Bill H.

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