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Message:: [QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 10234453, member: 10944"]I think repro and maybe not even Chinese painted. The people don’t look at all like how the Chinese painted them. They look cartoon like to me and like a western interpretation. The lady reminds me of Marge Simpson. The blue is very watery in many places, that doesn’t look right. Not a Chinese form I recognize off the top of my head, though that doesn’t mean it isn’t. I’d wonder if it was a Delft piece. Or if it was Chinese made maybe just a factory making for Pier 1 type stores that weren’t trying to actually replicate a realistic look to fool anymore. Does not look old to me. Nice looking decor but for what it’s worth I don’t think it’s legit. I hope I’m wrong. I bought a piece with the sticker of an obscure Japanese or Korean antique dealer on it. It was a dealer that serious collectors and dealers buying good Chinese things in the 60’s-80’s might recognize. Well studied folks in the niche basically, not the likes of me. So when I figured out who the sticker represented it made it seem really exciting and possibly legit. If there was a Spink, Marchant, CT Loo sticker I might be more skeptical but this lesser known dealer I got excited about. Turned out to be a total fake. The sticker looked old and convincing. Those fuckers are really good. They are faking all kinds of stickers. They are even getting real ones off cheap objects and putting them on good fakes. Fuckers[/QUOTE]