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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;aaroncab, post: 2131560, member: 3974&quot;]The mark is only one aspect of judging the authenticity of a piece. There is SO much to know about antique chinese porcelain beyond just a superficial recognition of the marks. A &quot;good&quot; looking mark can be on a piece made much later than the period, simply as an &quot;honorary&quot; mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said - the second mark you posted looks rubber stamped, to me, and probably not of the actual qianlong period. The first mark looks hand drawn, but the glaze looks so shiny, I suspect it&#039;s not &quot;of the period&quot; either. That doesn&#039;t mean that either piece isn&#039;t valuable per se, a piece of high craftmanship can be valuable no matter the age. Without detailed pictures of the entire items, from multiple angles, no one here will be able to tell you with ANY degree of certainty what you MIGHT have purchased. Without seeing it in person ( and being an EXPERT in the field) no one can tell you FOR SURE what you have.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT - for the purposes of selling on Ebay - if you are not sure what you have, you can always list it in auction, starting price being what you would have listed it for as a fixed price item - and list it as such - &quot;unsure of age&quot; and let the buyers/bidders decide what it&#039;s worth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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