Need help with mark on hand painted vase

My friend gave me this today to see if I knew the mark but after going on gotheborg.com I couldn't find the marl on there either. Anyone know the mark? Thanks.

 

There's no mark on the bottom? I think you show an artist mark that wouldn't be on gotheborg.

 

No nothing. Just the mark on the side. So the mark is just by an artist?

 

No, that would be a maker’s mark. I dunno if .chinese or Japanese, but leaning toward Japanese. It is a prunus pattern — a very popular Asian motif. I suspect that this one is fairly new. It is quite nice, but whether collectible or valuable — your guess is as good as mine.

 

Thanks kentworld. My friend gave it to me to see if I knew anything about it but I told her I wasn't really knowledgeable about the markings but I figured I would post it on here. I went on gotheborg under both Chinese and Japanese but couldn't seem to find a match unless I missed something. Itso interesting that the mark is on the side instead of the bottom that's why it peeked my interest. Maybe someone else who knows the marks better than me on here might know more.

 

Any luck?

 

i think it's japanese,by the style of the pattern and the mark

 

i'm sorry,doing some little research,this is the mark
山羊 Shan Yang (chinese ) , 山羊 Yagi (japanese) both of them are meaning mountain goat,this shan yang mark i think it's too ordinary word in porcelain mark so i can't found anymore information about the mark instead i found many are chinese porcelain with goat shape/pattern,and i think i'll correcting my opinion,this is recent chinese vase with modern writting style because it was wrote from left to right even the word using traditional chinese,good luck!

 

Thank you silver wolf! I'll let my friend know thanks again!

 

Great! It is sometimes difficult, especially when one knows nothing about Asian charcters, to discern whether something is Japanese, Chinese or “other!”