Does anyone know of any European crockery - porcelain, bone China, faience or otherwise - which is named “Melaka”, “Malakka”, “Malacca”, or...
Wow, what a long and interesting discussion. Coming back to this narcissus bowl, I would not consider it Peranakan and I don’t think many...
This is a China lion dance with some 60s propaganda technological elements - rocket, atom, electricity pylon.
Again the same shop circled in green, with Tien and Jin on either side of the top line. The 2 addresses below state that the main store is the...
Wow, how wonderful is this information! Well done. All the photos seems to point to the same shop, circled in green. The 2 characters circled in...
It’s Chinese silver. The rightmost line says it’s from Tianjin, from a workshop called something Hua, probably Wu Hua. The centre line says Chen...
Yes, the tazza can go for a bit more, but the condition and colours are not really ideal. The floral balls are simply decorative. You can see the...
I think €100 for the Chinese tazza is very reasonable
I think this is from the Guangxu period even though it has a Tongzhi mark. Good article here:...
So sorry, I can’t help much. The 4-character mark, something about old-fashioned? The 6-character mark something about King’s treasure? I think it...
Yes. Thank you so much. You are right that Straits Chinese porcelain is simply not worth the prices they're fetching now, in addition to which...
It's Japanese. Yes, the right character is "soup" in Chinese, followed by "no" (Japanese apostrophe) and leftmost is "yama" (mountain). Perhaps...
Yes, it's called octopus scroll:...
Here's a similar teapot, this time with a scholar on a qilin proudly going home to his mum after being awarded top scholar in the country. Much...
A cover should not be too difficult to find. Just a flat one with simple knop, and probably just a butterfly or two to match the one on the body
:happy:This is a genuine antique, marked for Tongzhi and probably of the late Tongzhi period. The story is that of Madam White Snake and her...
If they did, then the reverse would also be true: they get saturated with moisture when there's water in a vase or tea in a teapot
Far too much false information has already been published, both online and in hard copy
The dehydration hypothesis is not true as all moisture would have been dispelled with the firing. I don't think porcelain loses moisture over time
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