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<p>[QUOTE="JayBee, post: 4381972, member: 9259"]It reads "yishu taoqi," or "artistic pottery" above, below, the characters read "yi taili" and the writing looks like it was done by a non-Chinese person. </p><p>Yitaili could be a "Chinese name" given to a foreigner, adaptation of a foreign name. The brushwork/strokes on the painting also don't look Chinese, even it the pics are not all that clear. I wanna guess this might be a foreigner trying his/her hand at chinoiserie? And I'd say fairly recent... Maybe someone interning at some Chinese porcelain factory? </p><p>I'm going out on a limb here but that's my gut feeling... And of course I might be wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JayBee, post: 4381972, member: 9259"]It reads "yishu taoqi," or "artistic pottery" above, below, the characters read "yi taili" and the writing looks like it was done by a non-Chinese person. Yitaili could be a "Chinese name" given to a foreigner, adaptation of a foreign name. The brushwork/strokes on the painting also don't look Chinese, even it the pics are not all that clear. I wanna guess this might be a foreigner trying his/her hand at chinoiserie? And I'd say fairly recent... Maybe someone interning at some Chinese porcelain factory? I'm going out on a limb here but that's my gut feeling... And of course I might be wrong.[/QUOTE]
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