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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Couch Potato Wannabe, post: 3000095, member: 14066&quot;]Sorry, but I just can&#039;t make out the characters well enough to read it.&nbsp; I&#039;m confident the outer four are as I said them to be, but as for the inner four, it&#039;s too hard for me to read them.&nbsp; The centre marks are the manufacturers stamp by the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for its purpose, it&#039;s a food warmer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another example of one such item being offered on eBay at US$1000.&nbsp; Not sure how realistic that price is though.&nbsp; It is listed as made in Qing dynasty which would be sometime between 1644 to 1912.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]289273[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]289274[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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