It's a Chinese medicine cooking pot.
No, the characters were ok on the first picture, just a little lopsided. The second pick shoes them upside-down. The characters are 泰山 / Tai Shan...
Interested too (potentially)... :happy:
Beautiful piece! Love it! Biased as I love most all things Japanese.
The first one is the right orientation. It's the Chinese character "shou" (longevity) in cursive style --- not a very good job.
Very nice! I'd rather have the back be the front!
da Vinci, not de Vinci. And yes you could refer to it as "after" (or d'apres,) as it is a copy of a work by another artist. So in this case, you...
It reads "yishu taoqi," or "artistic pottery" above, below, the characters read "yi taili" and the writing looks like it was done by a non-Chinese...
sorry about that. didn't intend to brake any rules. it was more like a "WOW! Would love to have them!"
From the (kanji) writing, a souvenir from some hotel/hot springs.
The correct characters are 南厂艺造 (Nan Chang Yi Zao - Art Product of South Factory/Artshop, or Art from South Work/Art/shop, and it reads top left,...
These are being made today. If you want to gift one to someone and personalize it, you can ask the artist to add the name to the bottle. Very...
Inscription says Made in the Year of Qian Long. Copies and fakes abound. Includes yellow (imperial color) and the dragon has 5 claws, something...
Chinese artist's chop. Not for export and not chinese Zodiac. Chops are common, decorated with carvings, and often the stone color variations are...
Similar to Chinese scholar's wrist rest used for painting and calligraphy. You'll see a lot of examples if you do a search on Google with "bamboo...
Dothraki? :bored:
I found one similar to that one while digging my backyard a couple of weeks back!... Oh, wait... I buried it there a couple of years back when I...
The characters are Da Ming Xuan De, i.e., year Xuan De of the Ming Dynasty. Recently made in my opinion, not Ming.
Love it! Would fit just right in my workshop! :)
Love it. Japanese special treat.
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