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Re: Re: Chinese or Japanese plate

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Mar 05, 2014 (01:51 AM)

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Its worth depends on whether anyone agrees with me as to the modernity of the piece. In that regard, I further note that the last of the figures on the right side of your dish seems to melt into the border. This is not the case in the Christies dish, which shows each figure completely, in the balanced symmetry more typical of traditional Chinese design. Makes me think that your dish may be decorated with a high quality computer-printed stencil copied from a dish of slightly different shape or decorative perspective, which forced such an accommodation at the fringes.

If nobody else comments here, you can always submit a request and photos to Sotheby's, Christie's or many other large auctioneers for an auction potential appraisal. They don't usually give you an exact value, but a finding of acceptable for auction would usually mean that the item meets their criterion for minimum estimate, which was about $5000.00 for Sotheby's and Christie's last I heard.

Best regards,

Bill H.

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