This is the closest I can find to yours, whilst still not being exactly the same. Chinese late Qing dragon and phoenix yellow ground globular...
It looks genuine to me, however, I can not speak as to its potential age. The mark is a little hard to read though. To 'me' it looks like: 年 直...
can you get a sharper focus photo, much closer up?
The first two characters look like 尻張 (Shibari) which if you decide to look up on their own, beware it is a Japanese word meaning 'binding' or...
Some people really do enjoy having the original packaging. Unless the item is in some manner identifiably linked to its original packaging, then...
I'm not sure really, you could always ask them. [IMG] +81 11-562-7711
In Sapporo there is a place called the magic snack bar Ropossa/Lopossa, which goes by ロポッサ. ロポッサ is are the characters for Sapporo in reverse...
Well, there you go, I should have had more faith in what I could see then as 信令 seems to have been correct all along.
Kind of looks like 土口片旧 or 土口什旧 to me in Chinese and neither are a correct match to your piece. Still would prefer to see a photo of the complete...
Sometimes even bad photos are still good enough for an identification. It's always worth posting the bad pictures, so long as you let people know...
As for my offer of the characters in the first place.... I did give two options, and didn't bother to offer a translation for either, as I'm not...
Possibly, yes, but those characters are shared in Japanese too. Plus Japan does have examples of similar pottery maker marks too. For example...
Well, when you do get it in hand, send us photos of the items as a whole as well as a clearer photo of the mark. Kind of looks like 信今 or 信令...
Sadly no, though I can read some of the characters, how they translate on a character by character basis can differ greatly to how they would...
Sorry, I already saw this post previously, but couldn't make it out. It's too grouped together for me to read it clearly enough. You may need...
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The mark is that of Schafer and Vater http://www.schafer-vater.com/ Gustav Schaefer and Guenther Vater founded the Schaefer & Vater Porcelain...
Does the bulldog have a small hole in his mouth? Items like these can also be intended as string dispensers, with a ball of string/twine placed...
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Qianlong 1736-95 Looks like the same mark to me. [ATTACH] About a third the way down the page of this website......
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