The problem is that it needs to be remounted to look good, and remounting will probably not be cheap. It doesn't look particularly old, and the...
No, he says that in the listing, but if you look at the marks, there's actually nothing there resembling any characters that are read Bao Cheng....
And Tientsin instead of Tianjin, of course.
This is marked 天津 寶恆誠 "Tianjin, Bao Heng Cheng" and 紋銀 "wen yin," which usually indicates silver content of about 92.5 to 93.5 percent. There's...
I just translate and Google.
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Please show the whole item, not just the mark! If you had, it would have been clear you have a modern piece of Jun ware from the Zheng Family...
". . . why the books were hidden?" Cash stuffed down the spine?
That's 民窑 min yao.
When asking for help here, you need to post clear photos and clear photos of the entire item. There's a title there to the right clearly...
Is there some red in there towards the bottom? It looks like a 豇豆红 jiangdou hong "peachbloom" glaze that didn't fire very well. Should be mostly...
The Alhambra. http://johndcressler.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/032313_1946_VisittheIns4.jpg
When you post several items in one thread, you really need to letter or number them so they can be referred to conveniently. I mean this glaze:...
The one is sometimes called an oatmeal crackle glaze.
Yes, it's Kishida (sometimes also read Kishita) written with these characters: 岸田.
The mark's not very clear on the particular cup you posted. Maybe if you post some sharp photos of the mark on two or three other cups it'll be...
It says it's 翡翠 jadeite grade A. Infrared tested it as natural jadeite. To my eye, though, the photo on the certificate does not match your item.
No date there, just inscribed as a gift. Fair to say this doesn't date to antiquity, though.
You can pretty easily see for yourself. One's dated Showa 52 Year 9 Month (September, 1977) and the other's dated Showa 60 Year 7 Month 25 Day...
I haven't time to do much with these now, but they're both commemorative souvenirs, from 1977 and 1985, respectively.
Separate names with a comma.
