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Seeking expertise help to identify age and translate chinese characters and signatures on drilled vase, converted to a lamp. Antique or vintage? Famille Rose Landscape Scene, Painted or transfer? I can feel matt surface shadowing out from the border of the scenery and also see it. It feels like a very very light white-gray coat of clay. Some colored painted areas also have the same matt feel, other color areas feel and look glossy. Does this mean it is a transfer pattern? The lucite lamp base, fixtures, cord, and inline on/off switch, seem from the 60's. It is about 18" tall, 6" across the mouth and 5 1/2" across the base. The lamp weighs almost 12 lbs. It looks like wear on the base of the vase making me wonder if it is an older vase, before being converted to a lamp. Another clue may be how the vase was made. On very very close observation with hands on I can see the close (about 1/16th inch apart) horizontal lines going around the vase, probably made by the potters wheel. I tried to capture it in a picture(see close up of white high glaze). I haven't taken the lamp apart, pictures of the base are through the lucite, I don't know what the inside looks like. Would this lamp be of interest to collectors or more to a main stream audiance? Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge, love and appreciate your website, thank you again!

Hi Sheryl,

The mark seems a stamped variation of a Qianlong mark. (Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi). I don't think the vase is older than republic period. Most of that 6 character Qianlong marks in a double square dates from 3th quarter of the 20th. Ct.

Regards,

Arjan

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