Thanks! Yes, I believe I stay well in line of site policy. And I only tell prices that I am very familiar with based on my local Seattle markets...
Ha ha, it is truly called "night kettle" in China.
The phrase 国色天香 means "nation-wide beauty and heavenly fragrance",
because the original pink color pigment was out of an ore mineral. The ore site runs out, so they can never make the same pink color after, say,...
Yes, I were not active in the past because it was hard for me to login from phone. Thanks
It is hard to get a certification for the age of ivory here in the USA, if you hire an appraiser to do that, you may pay more money for the...
You are welcome! I read my linked id site again, they said artificially imitated fake ivory have evenly sided and spaced grain while real ivory...
Thanks for this valuable info!!! I was thinking it were federal ban. I still have a couple of ivory items in collection.
I am telling myself that ordinary people certainly wish to know their items value. Only would business people want to hide prices to lure buyers...
prices based on experience are hard to explain or prove. If you have similar experience, you would not need it explained. If not, explanation...
because I always buy from esty.com , rubylane.com and local antique malls, I have very good market prices in mind. I do not wish to mention some...
I clearly said my local antique mall still sells it for $20, because it is not antique, just mass-produced printed, and still for sale there for...
It sh really true
Thanks for the great information that I never knew!
Hi, thanks for the reminding! It is uncommon that I failed to read all the messages in this thread.
The bottom clearly indicates it is Chinese characters and Chinese immigrant makers, I would say makers came from Yixing China area
吉笔示用 indicates it is a brush washer, then why hollow? 永味清香means it is for food. Confusing. 明月松间照画 清泉石上流赏just talks about the painting, not...
明月松间照画？ 清泉石上流赏？。 吉笔示用？ 永味清香？
Before my last posting, I already believed in my mind that it is not a planter because no planter would have a nice painting hidden under dirt. I...
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