Hi, search for "GLORIA EXERCITUS" for more info, this is a 4th c Follis. Not sure of which emperor without seeing the other side.
Asian Fever, I agree that there is some Japanese influence in the use of raised enamels. But that is something typical for some late 20th c or...
Hi, I do not know that mark but the dish is Chinese and late 20th c at the oldest IMO. The crazing is intentional (as most crazing actually, I...
Here you go, mark no 1096 under "Yamatoku": http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml And have a look here, too:...
I think this is a late 20th c Chinese imitation of Japanese porcelain...
This is early 20th c Japanese, the impressed mark is of the Yamatoku company and the red mark is of some decorator (I cannot read it though). Mat
Hi, with the hole in the bottom I do not think it can hold ink or water? Maybe a pen or incense stick holder? It is Shiwan pottery, maybe Republic...
A boy, they still produce him, it seems. http://shop.porzellanvitrine.de/Porzellan-Kinderfigur-Wanderbursche-Hilla-Peyk-Wagner-Apel
The handwriten letter says that she cannot come home to her family for Christmas 1939. She was working as a houshold help for a year after school...
It is Wagner & Apel, this mark was used 1949-1951. https://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/germany/thuringia/lippelsdorf-01/index.php
Yes, you are right.
The strange thing is that your mark is written in the opposite direction, maybe that means that your is before 1955, when government propagated...
http://gotheborg.com/marks/jjmc.shtml
Hi, the vase is Japanese, Kutani, 2nd half of the 20th c IMO. I think the black outlines of the flowers are printed, not hand drawn. The mark is a...
The mark is that of Qianlong (1736-1795), but as Bakersgma said, that doesn't mean necessarily that the bowl is from that period. But it certainly...
The name of the artist is Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), but this is a modern reprint.
Hi, I blieve this is a Chinese ginger jar, 19th - early 20th c. Examples like yours with this glaze are often called "Korean", but I think that is...
I believe this is a modern Chinese piece, freely copying Satsuma, but the decoration is off...
Thank you @say_it_slowly , great link! I found the exact shape of my bonbonniere and almost identical decorations there, made by Fourmaintreaux...
Another possibility I had thought of was Rouen or a Rouen imitation. Did you have that in mind, too, say_it_slowly?
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