Wow, looks so much better -- well done!
You could try a pencil rubbing, or if you can decipher with your eyes or magnifying glass, you could copy the mark with pen and paper and post...
Sweet! Others may have different methods, but I would just use warm water and mild dish soap. If there are nooks and crannies, a soft toothbrush...
Cool. I recently read Edward Rutherfurd's China. It covered the period from the opium wars to the Boxer rebellion. Governor Lu was a prominent...
I don't know where my impression comes from, but these may be "newer" vintage. (2nd half 20th c perhaps). The multi-coloured glazed ones seem to...
Could be English. Several factories did this embossed sort of design. That "7" is not a continental one which usually have a horizontal line...
Not Worcester AFAIK.
Looks like the real deal to me.
I'm leaning towards late 19th c. Usually these things are German/Austrian as OBB said, but I'm not sure with the painting of the base part of...
I would've snapped that up in a heartbeat and I'm not supposed to "add" to my collection, I'm supposed to be "subtracting" now. :hilarious:
"In the style of 18th c Sevres" sounds a lot classier than imitation or replica. ;)
Just curious -- why do you think they are no later than 18th c?
Yep, lots of bent wood furniture was popular in the 70s and 80s.
I took the liberty of posting pix to another forum mostly to satisfy my curiosity. The "BB" was ringing a bell -- incorrect as it turns out. I...
Does it need a clean? I wonder about those spots. At first I was thinking it was some sort of sang de boeuf glaze. Does have a Chinese look to...
I googled totai shippo as I was unfamiliar with the term. Here is the gotheborg definition and info: https://gotheborg.com/marks/totaishippo.shtml
Nice bowl nonetheless!
Sigh. Tape is not good. When removing the tape some of the gilding will come with it. So, wherever possible, buy ceramics in best condition --...
Thomas is/was part of the Rosenthal group.
Thousand faces design? Haven't seen a mark with that fancy frame before. You could check at gotheborg.com under Japanese marks.
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