True, but I was also pointing out that if you buy and then actually use it, there's a good chance you're going to create more pinholes.
Old bellows develop light leaks pretty easily.
Not wucai, which literally means five colors. In Chinese this is called 青花【加】红彩 qinghua [jia] hongcai "blue-and-white [adding] red."
One of the unforgettable sounds of Jingdezhen: shopkeepers running chains across plates to age them. (When I say "Fake" I mean “fake” 仿 is right...
Whether or not you should have silver fixed before sale I don't really know. But when you see a piece with the name set out on the side in a...
“Watanabe" "Pure Silver" Probably Meiji with some value. (The name 渡辺 -- to use the character forms now used in Japan -- can be read several...
Marked 蔵春亭西畝造 "Soushun Pavilion, Made by Nishiune." http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g170438464
It's supposed to look like older Satsuma ware from Japan, but more than likely is so-called "Chinese Satsuma" from the last 25 years or so. Just...
You'll find plenty of Kutani marks over on the Bouvier site. http://www.kutani.org/Seal/s_list_kutani.htm The first two characters are obviously...
It really is Kutani.
Looks like a very stylized Kutani mark.
This is the Bao Ying mark: http://chinese-export-silver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Bao-Ying-Silver-Mark.png While the second character 盛 is...
Chinese. Fake Qianlong mark. 1980s-90s.
I don't have any particular knowledge of Chinese furniture, except that when it comes to value, my impression is that the particular wood counts a...
While paintings like the OP's are usually done freehand and done very quickly, masterpieces are often copied more mechanically: a large inkjet...
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Less than US$5 on Yahoo Auctions Japan. http://page19.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/x423742699
In the same vein, there's an interesting site on philatelic genealogy: tracing ancestors through envelopes. I was shocked a few years ago to find...
From Lijiang. Use Google Translate. http://qcyn.sina.com.cn/lijiang/ljtravel/mstc/2011/0629/1118341416.html
Made in Tianjin, or elsewhere imitating a Tianjin carpet.
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