@Figtree3 -Iron impurities in the clay.
ANS: Don't wear a vest
Why would anyone ban Camel Bones?;)
21st c Macao produced
I think this is rather a nice thing, whatever the origins. I've seen loads of Belgian tapestries over the years but never this design.
Yours looks to be a better quality piece than the one in the eBay link.
I think this is called a sarcophagus style?
21stc.
I disagree. Even though they are designed after and use early Chinese design motifs, I believe these vases are in fact Japanese and date from the...
Copy of Peking Glass.
This is a Japanese Kyoto earthenware "satsuma" style vase based loosely after the style and coloration of Taizan Yohei IX, although not of the...
That is about the only way!
Style is 1910-1920
Val st Lambert?
Nope, sorry, these things only started appearing for sale in the late 1990s. They are fantasy items designed to sell to the west, under the guise...
No daguerreotypes in this group above. They're unmistakable, they look just like mirrors.
I think this one is cool, good gift for a pre-school teacher.
Not really Tara, marks are rarely an indicator of anything when it comes to Chinese ceramics. Lots of good pieces are unmarked and lots of fakes...
Not this again. Opium pipes bear ZERO resemblance to the OP's "pipe". Opium is not placed IN anything it is smeared ON to something, the ceramic...
Just don't sit on it by mistake
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