Yep, Japanese tea cups used at restaurants.
Japanese writing, not Chinese (although it includes kanji/Chinese characters.) And from the pics does not look like a woodblock print, but hand...
Check out this link: https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/Chinese_Customs/Guan_Yin.htm Hope that helps answer your question.
Agree with Any Jewelry; Guanyin Buddha, woodblock print, common piece. Have seen similar in HK, Macao (in private homes and public shrines, in...
I agree with Any Jewelry. At most 1990s I'd say as I saw similar pieces in Beijing back then.
Chinese decorative cloisonne, modern arts and crafts piece, writing is zhuanshu/seal script. Korean writing borrowed elements of Chinese writing...
Mark Zuckerberg (Suckerberg!) has been trying hard to do the bidding of the Chinese communist party to be allowed into China as it continues to be...
Chinese painting by painter GUO Changshui (郭长水) if I'm not mistaken. Will try and see if I can find any information on the artist, but this is a...
Same: "You do not have permission to view media within this album."
Not sure what you mean by the character zhi having three prongs not 5. What is it exactly that you are calling a "prong"?
The three characters are 报春图 / Bao Chun Tu, or Announcing the Spring (picture) a common "name" for this kind of decorative pieces. The chop is...
Regarding prints and originals, and the dot patterns: My experience is with reproductions of Chinese artworks and might not be relevant in this...
Sorry, my mistake on my post. Four toes for the commoners, five for the emperor. Corrected the original posting.
Right order of characters is 康熙年制, or Kang Xi nian zhi, i.e., made in the year of Kang Xi. Can't tell from pictures if the real thing or not....
Foot binding was a Chinese practice, never Japanese. This may contribute to the discussion: "Foot binding has never been practiced in Japan, and...
It's a personal choice. A nice ex-libris, or several, for different sections of one's personal library, is a good way of leaving a mark on the...
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No sure if this is a private message... never sent one; but would be interested in knowing what you have. Thks. JB
I believe the right word is magazine, not clip. Clip is different from magazine.
Yup! This became an industry in itself. Old and not so old China if no particular value is broken, then mounted. Other than pendants, they make...
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