Chinese Porcelain Vase

Was wondering if anyone recognized the mark on the base or could translate the writing on the back. Everything is painted on the vase, nothing printed. This measures 11" tall and is 7" wide.

 

The inscription wasn't done by hand; that's a commercial font. Note the mechanical regularity of the characters and that the repeated characters 風 are identical in every respect.

 

Looks quite modern, have you checked gotheborg.com for the base mark?

 

Of course it's a stamped, spurious Qianlong mark.

 

Thanks, though my reply was to Josh

 

I did not realize the base mark was stamped. Both the base mark and writing on the back of the vase look like hand painting. When you rub your fingers across these areas you can actually feel the difference compared to the unmarked areas of porcelain. Does a stamp cause this same effect?

Did some research on the Gotheborg site. Theis is a Qianlong mark, looks like it could be Republic Period to late 20th Century.



http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturychina.shtml

 

I can't tell from the pictures if the images are printed or hand painted but the colors and the style is post Republic.
Stamped marks were used during late Qing and Republic but you can tell that this ia more newer.

 

If 889 says it's a ' spurious ' mark......well that's good enough for me.!!

 

Not really. You can have a fine and expensive late Qing or Republic piece with spurious Qianlong mark. But that's not the case here.

 

As I said, the inscription on that vase is printed with a common, commercial font. Here's the basic font that was used, matched with some characters from the inscription:




This particular font was made by SinoType and first copyrighted 1991. The vase cannot possibly date earlier than that, and probably dates within the past 15 years.