According to Jan-Erik Nilsson "As a rule no Chinese export porcelain from the 18th century have any marks. Most 19th century export pieces also...
Bondarel would fit w/ what I see
Not my bailiwick, but from my research it is a 4 character Qianlong mark which many potters used as a nod to the period (it’s popularity died out...
Bordarel is a French surname
That would have been a miraculous find given that Pollock stopped painting (and virtually everything else) in 1956 : )
The lions on either side of the bust are a homage to Don Quixote The 400th anniversary of Cervantes birth was in 2005 and was a big day of...
apparently that shaped it is referred to as a “lobed Meiping”
Sure, if I had purchased the vase new from a shop in or around Jingdezhen then the idea that there were no like images on the web would be fairly...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Found today in a second hand shop The blue, yellow and green glazes have a rather loud hue that I'm not...
No offense taken, just sharing a different perspective. I’m not concerned with it being any particular age, I’m just trying to figure out where...
Do you intentionally answer questions like that to be snarky or do you just not realize how a comment like that reads to someone who doesn't...
Do you mean the mark itself or the way the mark is applied (on top of the glaze) because from what I was reading the mark was used very commonly...
mmarco102 The shape is Chinese meiping (Look at your post for the word edit near its bottom edit and click “full image” to help those with a...
"KiwiSusan, post: …it’s very beautiful Thank you. Lucky find at a resale shop. It gets a lot of attention from my guests and I’m at a loss for a...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hello everyone, I have hit a roadblock finding a "like shaped" vase in my searches. I've come close (say 3 out of 5...
I know so little about antique furniture my surrender seems almost contrived but I am at an impasse. I have spent hours reading up on leg designs,...
That's some crazy amazing detective work Jivvy! Thanks ;) I'll update the thread if I can find out what church is in the painting. Looks like it...
Thank you Jivvy! sounds promising :)
Lovely little painting (8" x 11") I'm guessing French countryside with heavy emphasis on guess. Try as I may I can't riddle out the signature....
Looks very much like the format of this Sir Galahad print I have: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Mine is a stone lithograph. I'm going to take a...
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