Faces are all wrong
I use a variant of them all the time, bought the Framemaster tool with loads of ammo at yard sale and boy it's so much easier than using pins!
Late. last 1/4 of 20thc at earliest. Auction lot is a fake too IMO. Vases like this were occasionally made in mid to late Ching, but far less...
Which is of course, nonsense.
It ain't Lestyn, it's a Welsh name, Iestyn with a capital "i":bigtears:
Eastlake-ish style surely?
High school art IMO
Indeed it is. Based on a Chinese original which I THINK appears more toward the latter part of the 18thc perhaps? The gilding is also awfully...
Out west, the bottle show people do, not sure what you easterners call 'em:beaver:
We call these ginger beer bottles in Canada
I am pretty sure your piece is later, John.
If somebody famous is in one of the yearbooks ...might add to desirability, people are obsessed with the cult of personality these days.
It does have the appearance of Bizen at the base, for sure. No idea who though!
It could be an early bit of Iestyn's work although the piece I own from 2000 is signed in block capitals and also with his studio name "blowzone"....
Like @anundverkaufen said, common, small value hard to sell.
try to get the measurements of the 1730 teabowl and if the chinoiserie border is the same on the early one and go from there...gilding doesn't...
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Looks like it's after or style of Leroy Neiman
Very lovely and quite valuable, of course you will not be able to tell folks the handle is ivory.
Very new, Chinese of course, but cute! Oh and dem polar bears iz pandaz
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