Featured dragons!

dear all

these mythical looking chinese/japanese dragons are made of porcelain? probably late 19th century - early 20th century. they feel very glassy fragile and appear to have a very fine dusting of white powder all over. easily washed off i think

anyone seen these before?

regards
phaik hooi

 

No, but I love them! Sometimes it is a pity you can only hit the like button once.
How big/small are they?

 

the mother is 2 1/2" (maybe 3") and babies are 1 1/2"? didn't have ruler handy ....

 

Are you sure they're porcelain? They look more like glass.
Don

 

Oops, this is where I misread something again, I thought Phaik said they were glass.
They look like glass to me as well. I have some Peking glass overlay snuff bottles that have the same frosted effect.

 

Lampwork glass and very nicely done indeed. Scavo finish.

 

decided to wash the broken baby ...... sure looks like glass!

 

I've seen the same lampwork type figures come out of China in the last 20 years. I also saw it done in Corning, NY in the 1970s. What these are...dunno. They don't look horribly old to me.

 

not mum's for sure, else would be in her collection of "junk". she was born in 1929.

 

Bimini were doing lampwork like this in the 1920s. Age is hard to judge on them.

 

these were probably made locally by the chinese who migrated to penang. in the 1930s, there was an amusement park near my great grandmother's home, called "Sin Seh Kai" or New World Park. it had a ferris wheel and other funfair rides. also traders selling trinkets. after the war, it had a cinema for a while. it was closed/abandoned until it reopened in 2008.

found more: bird, rabbit, pigs? (white and black) and rats? gave them a wash for photo op

 

I once heard someone describe something as "majorly cute".
That's what these are, Phaik, majorly cute.
Could the rats be bats?
My absolute favourites are still the dragons, majorly cute.

 

was thinking rats because of chinese horoscope but could be bats too!

 

I think you're spot on with Chinese Zodiac, I bought similar in Singapore.