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I bought this nice Rouleau Vase the other day. The item is 25 cm/10 inch high, weight is 750 gramm. The basic colour of the pottery is again not real withe, but more gray-blueish, "goose-egg-shell-coloured".

It is designed with an impressive well-painted powder-red Foo Dog, with green enameled eyes, there is another small green enameled dragon/foo dog beneath it. There are also some chinese inscriptions on the backside and a seal, maybe a poem or something written about the painter/date?

It has a neatly written four-character Kangxi mark in a blue double ring underneath, all in underglazed blue. But I think it should be 19.th century, or even newer?

Opinions and informations of the knowing wellcomed!

Thank you very much.

Greetz, Elke from Germany

This looks modern to me.....small chance that it is late 19th - early 20th c., but rendering does not have the vividness of earlier works. Foot ring looks modern, too.

Here's a small teapot dated 1907 with iron red and green decoration of Buddhistic lions and an apocryphal Tongzhi (1862-1874) iron-red reign mark. The pot has typical features that you'll see on late Qing Dynasty vases and teapots in this pattern. The porcelain was made at Jingdezhen, where according to my understanding, it received its initial basic decoration and a line of black text to the effect of "There's good news to report!". The pre-painted pieces were then sent to small kilns in various parts of China, where resident calligraphers could personalize the items with dates and other details of happy events, such as marriages and births of sons, and then refire the porcelains. Tim's concerns about the blue Kangxi mark are well-founded. Late Qing porcelains in this iron-red pattern virtually always have a complementary iron-red mark, apocryphal or otherwise.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Thank you very much for your insight, Tim an Bill. So I understood that the vase should be made around 1900.
Can anybody read the writing, is there a date or something?

Best wishes,

Elke

Dear Elke

If you're still interested, I would also have diagnosed this as very late Qing, but for different reasons.

To me the blue mark is a classic example of Xuantong (Puyi) or similar era underglaze cobalt; Anthony Allen's book describes it as a "purplish" cobalt - I would describe it as looking like cheap whiteboard marker. Compare to the Xuantong dish at page 113 of his book on Later Chinese Porcelain.

Xuantong/Puyi reigned 1909 to 1912.

Rgds
JLim

Thank you very much, dear JLim, for your respone and your insight.
....sorry for my late reaction, just fund it today, overlooked it before, as I am in this board very rarely.

Regards, Elke

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