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<p>[QUOTE="JayBee, post: 4118312, member: 9259"]The characters are jiu gu / 九谷, for 九谷瓷器 or Kutani porcelain. This is however bizarre, as Kutani Ware is Japanese, and none of it looks Chinese. Like Any Jewelry, it seems to me to be Shi Wan (or Sek Wan) and I used to see a lot of it in Macao when I lived there.</p><p>(I wrote first none of it is blue/white but that's not right. There's blue/white Kutani Ware.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330772[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JayBee, post: 4118312, member: 9259"]The characters are jiu gu / 九谷, for 九谷瓷器 or Kutani porcelain. This is however bizarre, as Kutani Ware is Japanese, and none of it looks Chinese. Like Any Jewelry, it seems to me to be Shi Wan (or Sek Wan) and I used to see a lot of it in Macao when I lived there. (I wrote first none of it is blue/white but that's not right. There's blue/white Kutani Ware.) [ATTACH=full]330772[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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