Geez, even $50 is a steal IMHO! Not so long ago, it would've been a couple of hundred or more.
This is true, but the base rim and the crispness of the mark makes me think newer, but I could be wrong. It is a nice piece regardless.
China/pottery values have been in the dumpster for quite a while now. High quality stuff is cheap as chips and no one wants it -- who entertains...
Well, where I live, (Canadian west coast) it would be highly unusual to find pottery shards older than a couple of hundred years. More likely to...
IIRC, my sister in law has/had one that was on a black painted wood base with a similar carved style and similar size. I think some family member...
I found a shard (sherd?) on a beach once that I thought was pottery but turned out to be marble.
$10 for the whole set? I knew that china dinner set prices were in the dumpster, but wowser! These white with gold rim sets were more popular a...
Thanks for the explanation, Chris! So informative, as ever. Makes you realize how internecine the workings of some of these large companies were!
Well, I like it because it's such a lovely yellow. Wow, no wear on the base whatsoever!
Nice! It does look as if parts of the characters in the mark are chipped or something. You can check gotheborg.com for the mark under Japanese...
Well, colour me a little confused now. The impressed numbers do look continental rather than Japanese. There is a gilded rim on the Royal...
Another thing I hadn't heard of before, but a likely contender. And I tend to think latter half of 19th c datewise, but a guess on my part....
Thanks for the link. I had never heard of penca de balangandan.
I don't know about age -- that may be difficult to ascertain, but I think the decoration is to simulate marbling like marbled paper. Where?...
If I were a betting person, I would bet Japanese.
The necklaces are nice, but I'm with Brad; that dragon tray is great.
Ah, good to "see" you again, Chris. Yes, sad to hear that Rosenthal has gone the way of many quality factories and been bought out and production...
Looks like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer to me, but I dunno. Nice statue!
We do need photos. Just resize your photos and post. (There are image resizing apps.) Somewhere there is a thread about posting photos to the...
Most of what I'm seeing on google is that it's a design by Tapio Wirkkala who did designs for Rosenthal's studio line. But, emailing Rosenthal...
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