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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ce BCA, post: 4119960, member: 18716&quot;]Hmm, I hadn&#039;t considered it reading as Kutani - as [USER=9259]@JayBee[/USER] mentioned, this looks nothing like Kutani.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kutani is porcelain and blue and white colours are almost unheard of.&nbsp; Also the fact that many similar items show up when searching is suspicious if they were antique.&nbsp; The style of the figure is Chinese with Westernised influence of the features.&nbsp; The symbology of the decoration is largely Chinese.&nbsp; All the bases seem to be deliberately shaded in the same way.&nbsp; Some of the references also consider the figure as Sau (one of the Chinese three wise men).</p><p><br /></p><p>My suspicion is these are Chinese made and due to the mark they have become accepted as Japanese and one of those internet self re-enforcing errors over time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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