Second pic is the signature right way up, sorry not sure who made it. Perhaps post a pic of the entire back?
Totally with @aaroncab on this, pretty low quality, they get a LOT better even tourist ones. Character displayed is FU...
The marks are just makers marks. Nice box, not sure of use, bend the foot corner back into shape!
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I suppose you could call it variegated serpentine or soapstone.
Ah, yes. "Simple" pictures from a phone tend to be massive overkill for anything but selling phones. :DThese huge mega-megapixel sized "simple"...
I recognize the stone, some early 1950's pieces of Port Harrison Inuit art are carved using it, but it became scarce up there and you don't see it...
The original but "alternate" red flag - (as a symbol of the workers of the world/communists) was first used in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales during the...
Really modern.
Take a look at this, it should help you along in identifying your vessel. https://collections.artsmia.org/art/81317/martaban-storage-jar-china
New, Hong Kong or Macao decorated and not Japanese, Chinese "satsuma" - decorative value only.
Sauce jar, Asian imo
Thank you so much Kronos!
Could a member with a Worthpoint account please let me know what this Buddha sold for?...
Pretty cool and mighty saleable IMO
I'd buy this if I were you, very doubtful Bristol, thinking Bohemian? Lovely thing.
Patina looks off to me, not too old methinks
New-ish
I think this could be actual old one, maybe popular mechanics project or something like that - OTOH - I think I see a label on the middle rung?...
Not studio pottery with that base, factory production imitating studio pottery IMO
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