Featured And the Chinese bits

Can anyone read the mark on the cloisonne please?

 

Love the little elephant.

Not sure that will do anything valuewise. It is a cute little perfume bottle, sans lid, which used to hang from a chain. Not very old, just very cute, and a popular colour.

 

Lan Feng Jing, first character can mean orchid, second two are probably a name (reading right to left).

 

Thanks both! It's staying with me, I'll find a chain. The elephant might be gold, I need to test.

 

You can give it a little stopper by glueing a nice matching stone cabochon on a wee cork. A rosequartz cabochon would look very pretty, and it matches the flowers.

 

Oh, good idea. I've got some wee cabs.

 

景泰兰 (兰 or 蓝) / jing tai lan, or cloisonne, read in this case left to right.

 

Aha! That makes perfect sense.

 

Ha, so many things in Chinese to trip you up - interesting they used the character for orchid for the lan rather than the usual character- may be a play on words given the subject on the piece.

 

Those little jade elephant charms along with jade Buddha charms, both trimmed in gold, were popular on charm bracelets in the 1960s.

Debora

 

I've got arather nice jade buddha, if I can find his photo.....