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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 457009, member: 2844&quot;]I agree, recently made Chinese, to copy Japanese.</p><p>The general look is Japanese, with a hint of Satsuma, but the quality and the general &#039;feel&#039; of the piece are mass produced Chinese.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gian, excellent photos as always.</p><p>The signs to look for to spot lower quality are the overlaps of the decoration, decoration missing in some places where it should be, unfinished base, blobs of glaze on the inside. Those indicate that it was made in a very sloppy way, by someone who was overworked and underpaid.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Gold on Chinese made items is applied to make a piece attractive to a certain market. It is not necessarily a sign of quality, but more a decorator&#039;s thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s right, in Thailand and other mainland Southeast Asian Buddhist countries as well. You can buy goldleaf fairly cheaply online too, I have some packets for minor repairs to gilding on keris (of course<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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