Wrong board/forum, wrong post? LOL
Whish there was a set formula 100% full proof for this, but truth is, there isn't. In some cases it's quite clear what you have in front of you, a...
Painting, not woodblock print. Guan Yin from the Bai Miao Temple.
Yes, Chinese red lacquer quite common and mass produced in China these days. If old, they can be valuable, yes.
Your wife has an eye for what is valuable in my opinion. Good taste at least. If I had to keep only one, that would be the one --- so I'm maybe...
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I would say the vase is Japanese. Characters are the same as Chinese, these are not phonetic, but "kanji" ("hanzi" in Chinese, meaning "Chinese...
Bad paintings. Wouldn't give $5 any of them.
Horrible "painting" if one can even call it that!
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS!
It's a threshing machine. The Chinese characters read "zhu feng gu," literally, "bambu wind drum" which may mean that it's a drum contraption that...
Yes, agree, French, the word tribunal (court) is there, etc.
When something is listed on eBay, if you change the URL extension, example, from .fr to .com or .de (Germany) and change nothing else, the page...
That's a box used for stamp/chop paste that painters and calligraphers apply to their art.
It's a brush pot (笔筒 / bitong). If light weight it's bamboo. If heavier wood carved to look like a bamboo section. Would be easy to tell on hand,...
This might help: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rockwell-Kent-Venus-And-Adonis-by-William-Shakespeare-First-Edition-1931-/163619523566
This is a Chinese painting, not Japanese, I think, and not related to anyone's death. I can't read all the characters, because the characters are...
Looks like after all the banana was a real banana!? [ATTACH]
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