It's clearly not nephrite or jadeite.
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A really badly stamped fake Qianlong reign mark. The cup would probably have more value without that mark.
According to the inscription, this commemorates completion of a tour of duty. These seem to have been common souvenirs in the Japanese Navy.
Look like Chinese opera mask papercuts.
That's where the evidence points, though of course there's no doubt more research possible for confirmation. (Note that Koreans usually put...
金 = Kim in Korean. http://bid.igavelauctions.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=3992610
Maybe to hold a spongy stamp dampener? (If made to hold stamps, the shape of that inside rim would be odd. But then, why a heart on a stamp...
Indeed, in China these days those heavy sturdy wares of the Mao era do attract collectors. Like Cultural Revolution stuff, the prices are no...
I stopped posting there after they objected to including links from Yahoo Auctions Japan, which I used to show identical Japanese marks. Don't...
Westerners buy the originals, but many Chinese think it's inauspicious and inappropriate to hang someone else's ancestors on the wall as decoration.
Too cute is another red flag. That bird beak seems to be squawking "Buy Me!" to a foreign tourist. And there weren't many foreign tourists in...
Shang ritual vessel, presumably a replica or a fantasy creation thereof.
The lid has the seal of Fan Zude 范祖德 (1904～1976), a noted Yixing potter. http://auction.artron.net/paimai-art0045074198/ According to the...
Why are Chianti jugs sometimes wrapped something like this? Perhaps it began as a way of protecting the bottles in shipment, and became a tradition.
As said, hat stands were made to hold the special hats worn by Qing dynasty officials. With the fall of the dynasty in 1912, the hat stand lost...
You wouldn't need an ice pick to remove a mark unless it was fired on. When I see something like this, usually at a street market, I just assume...
"If the product is not perfect, why they don't inspect it before placing the mark?" Do you understand how ceramics are produced, and marked?...
Not sure scratching off a mark indicates deception. In China it's not rare to find a maker's mark that's been obliterated because the piece while...
My guess as well.
Separate names with a comma.
