You're going to want to familiarize yourself with the current market for teapots marked with the seal of this famous potter. Taobao is a good...
From Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by S. Frederick Starr, p.10: [ATTACH] His papers are apparently at the New York Public LIbrary. This from a...
Are you familiar with Osaka City Central Hall? Or Taipei's Presidential Office Building, built during Japanese rule? This was precisely the style...
The roof structure is clearly different and at the right edge on your photo there seems to be a large arched entrance not in the Chicago building....
This is Qingtian stone, not Shoushan stone.
It's 錦光山 "Kinkozan." By the way, I'd have my doubts this is the Illinois Building:...
It's also marked with the nickname of the individual who made it, 老双中 Lao Shuang Zhong.
This is Chinese, not Japanese. Indeed, it's marked "Please Use Domestic Products," which was a common Chinese slogan in the '20s-'30s-'40s against...
This is a Japanese 金庫 kin ko, usually called a money box in English. It's marked with a date in 35 Meiji (1902) and an address in Kyoto. Easy to...
Sloppy and simple, so far more likely to be from Vietnam.
This glaze, among others, is a so-called 窑变 yaobian glaze. That means it changes character in the kiln, and the end result can vary dependng on...
錦光山 Kinkozan, again. https://www.antiquers.com/threads/can-anyone-help-with-this-japanese-pottery-mark.3006/#post-42546
From the photos, it looks like it's been antiqued with oil and grime, a very Chinese technique. If you scrub it, you might end up with a very...
This is Japanese, 琉球焼 Ryūkyū-yaki from Okinawa, and a wine vessel, made at the 中城窯 Nakagusuku Kiln. http://aucview.aucfan.com/yahoo/n136163195/...
I don't recall having seen a recent piece decorated with this technique, which is labor-intensive and requires quite some skill. There's also so...
Yes, the right column reads 日本 "Japan" and the left reads 錦光山造 "Made by Kinkozan."
Yes, the style of decoration says about as clearly as can be that this is so-called "Chinese Satsuma."
There's a shallow bowl under the lid, so I assume it's for candy or fruit. Like the OP's, mine is not marked. This glaze is usually associated...
The lid may have looked something like this: [ATTACH]
The glaze is usually called Monterey Jade.
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