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Lovely Asian bowl - Is it old? or new reproduction!

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By tarpley1972, 7 August, 2013
Description

This bowl was purchased along with a storage facility.   Anyone recognize the marks?

Category
Asian Art
Medium
porcelain
Distinguishing marks
asian symbols on back
Condition
Mint
Date Period
?
Price Paid (If known)
$1.50
For Sale?
Yes
Photos

jsupinski

11 years 11 months ago

Re: Lovely Asian bowl - Is it old? or new reproduction!

Those would be your standard character marks defining the period of the item, I'm curious to see pictures of the bowl :)

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Lovejoy

11 years 11 months ago

Re: Lovely Asian bowl - Is it old? or new reproduction!

Markings on Asian Porcelain are notoriously unreliable, though these are not "Reign Marks" that indicate the period it was made. Reign marks will have at least four character marks. You can look up hundreds of Chines and japanes markings here:

http://gotheborg.com/marks/index-china-marks.htm

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