Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Sep 27, 2013 (09:00 PM)
As Dave notes, the marks appear to have characteristics that leave a lot to be desired. A contributing factor may be that some modern white glazes, including Japanese, fire to a frothy bubble consistency which tends to cloud the underlying cobalt. Otherwise, your mark is written pretty much in the Chinese popular kiln style of the one with a blue sgraffito design found on eBay at the link below, where it seems to be doing quite well in the bidding. You'll note , though, that the quality of the sgraffito and enameled decoration is quite superior to your yellow bowl.
Seeing how you have two bowls with the same mark, one with sgraffito designs and the other without, spurs me to show the below images of four small bowls or wine cups I own, all from the same set of five, having the identical version of a Qianlong mark and being abut 3 & 1/8 inches in diameter. Originally I thought them to be Chinese but now believe they may be Japanese, based on a Japanese-marked saucer that wasn't part of the set but matches one of its bowls. I've annotated the last image to speak for itself.
I believe the bowl set probably is late 19th or early 20th century, because the blue in the marks is deep and clear, whereas modern Japanese glazes tend to have the aforementioned propensity t froth up in the kiln and blur underlying marks. Could your bowls be Japanese I wonder?
Best regards,
Bill H.
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