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Re: Identifying the mark on Chinese Porcelain

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Dec 03, 2012 (12:37 PM)

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The mark says "Made during the Qianlong Reign of the Great Qing Dynasty" (Da Qing Qianlong Nian Zhi), but your porcelain jar is late 20th century.

Often this palette mistakenly is described as "doucai" (the contending colors), but doucai patterns as I understand them should have underglaze blue outlining for all of the overglaze colored features. That appears not to be the case here, so the piece might more appropriately be called an example of "wucai" (the five colors). In both cases, however, what is seen on your jar as bright orange in the Indian lotus blooms and some of the bats and scrolling tendrils would have been painted during the Qianlong reign in a more muted iron red pigment than this modern one.

I've attached an image of an 18th century doucai dragon & phoenix bowl for comparison of the palette.

Best regards,

Bill H.



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