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I need some help with a chinese floral gilded vase bottom marking. What time period can this be asigned to, the left bottom symbol I cannot match, therefore the whole marking is unknown to me. Is this from the 1960's ? Please if someone cold enlighten me. The porcelain vase is small 155mm in height

In my opinion, this vase probably was decorated at a Hong Kong or Mainland China porcelain painting factory circa the late second quarter of the 20th century, when the Chinese political and military situation was still in flux. The base has been reglazed to take the stamped mark of "Made in the Qianlong Reign", and the millefleurs pattern appears to be laid down by a printed transfer.

Decorative value only.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Dear Bill, thank you once again for sharing your knowledge and looking at the vase.
I was checking the flowers under a loop and noticed some definite brush strokes, where two colours meet each other there is smudges combining the two colours as they run over each other also on the black lines. No dots on black outlines, also much gilding between spaces.
Question: can transfer produce this effect ?

In this case, the transfer consists only of the pattern fired on in black lines, and the colors are added by brush in the painting workshop as with a child’s coloring book. Different colors are fired separately at different temperatures, producing varying colors where colors overlap.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Dear Bill
Thank you for explaining the process.
btw. Not sure what is wrong with my camera or perhaps it is the lighting, the dark brown patches you can see in various places is actually gilding. The top rim gilding has worn or chiped off to expose the white porcelain.
Thank You and kind regards.

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