This domestic ware is sometimes called Kitchen Ming or Kitchen Ching, this one is Ching, about 1860-ish
Nice set! Something along the lines of mine, although I only have coffee cans and saucer-dishes, no tea bowls. The crests on mine were just...
This is a cigarette box, so probably not Meiji, almost certainly Taisho era. Lovely thing though.
When you handle more items of this type, you will be able to tell.
my first step in repairing a jagged tear like this is to try and glue the threads back together. I use cyanoacrylate glue with saran wrap to...
whatever they are, they're pretty nice!
doesn't look too bad if most of the pieces are there.
these ate much older, John has dates right
Chinese late 20th to early 21stc
Did you check Zhang Bu?
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Pretty nice! It is very much in the style of Zhang Bu, you will have to compare the seals but if it isn't him, it's somebody copying him!
Maybe he got fed up and signed it "Fouque. It"? :bigtears:
Google it https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=johnson+chair+co+office+chair
He's wearing a Tyrolean hat so that 's maybe a clue too?
I live in Victoria BC but the op's chairs are somewhere between the prairies, New England and Maryland so I guess FF are SOL.
have a look at these yatate...
Thumbs down on this one, should have left it for the next guy IMO
It does look more like bronze, but you're a better judge having it in your hands .... The subject is probably the key to the age, so ... guessing...
Yes, i'm in the BC part of the Praries.:bucktooth:
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