![]() Chinese Porcelain of the late Qing and Republic Periods – some thoughts January 26, 2013Ī few years ago I posted on the Gotheborg Discussion Board () an overview of Republic of China marks.Some notes on Wan Shou Wu Jiang (万寿无疆) Porcelains since the Late Qing period March 12, 2013.CHINESE REPUBLIC (1912-1949) and other MARKS OVERVIEW May 5, 2013.Dayazhai (大雅齋) Porcelains: A Brief Outline June 6, 2013.Chinese Lions in the 19th and 20th centuries September 10, 2013.The Puce Landscape Pattern on Porcelain – Chinese Republic Era Stereotype March 6, 2014.JIUJIANG PORCELAIN COMPANIES IN THE CHINESE REPUBLIC ERA 九江瓷民国 June 8, 2015.Chinese Republic porcelain, Shanghai marked landscape examples (民国瓷上海) June 19, 2015.Green press-moulded wares, Republic of China (& earlier) July 26, 2015.Wang Bu’s Chrysanthemum Legacy (王步菊花遗产) September 15, 2015.Deconstructing the ‘Rice Grain’ Pattern on Chinese Porcelain – Late Qing to PRC December 7, 2015.The Ogee Cartouche on Chinese Republic Porcelains (民国瓷反弧开光) June 25, 2016.Dated 20th Century Chinese Porcelain Compilation: 1900 to 2000 January 11, 2017.Chinese porcelain LIDDED SERVING BOWLS – a 20th Century shape June 20, 2017.Best 10 books for the Chinese Republic period (1912-1949) April 4, 2018.JIANGXI PORCELAIN COMPANY(江西瓷业公司) – Part 1 – The Early Years (一开始) September 5, 2018.‘Flower Balls’ on C19th and C20th Chinese porcelain (花球 Huā qiú) February 9, 2019.There are about 200 new marks.) OTHER CHINESE PORCELAIN REPORTS on this blog…. ![]() All new marks are in the proper alphabetical order but the text will be red and in italics for a short time so as to highlight the newly added marks. I recommend Bowes’ book - Japanese Marks and Seals, and a good Japanese dictionary for starters, along with that 1.8 liter bottle of dai ginjo sa’ke.(An update to this marks overview for May 2014 is now complete. Georges has a good reference library here in the database and unmarked pieces can often be identified by style. There are good resources, however, for wading through this, and don’t get too frustrated. The mark can be incised, impressed, underglaze, overglaze, or in magic marker (I am not kidding).I have several, but I don’t think it is widespread in Kutani.yet. Increasingly, the Chinese are good at faking, or forging Japanese ceramics, right down to the marking.it could be a name of a person (artist? potter?, a shop, a kiln, or none of the above.I need more Sake. Yet some National Treasures here are unmarked. Even the most common of dinner plates, cups, and saucers today are marked.Many of the characters used in Meiji and before are no longer in use. Do not assume the Japanese themselves can read the markings.Many have the same names, which further adds to the confusion. Trouble is that there are many Zans, and often their fame was not long lasting. Kyokushuzan (a Sumo wrestler here, does NOT do ceramics in spite of having a Zan in his name). Bizan, Shizan, Seizan, Kyozan, Kinzan, and Kyokuzan, just to name a few, come to mind. Presumably when they get famous, they seem to take this kind of pen name. Many artist names read Zan (or in Japanese, Yama). ![]()
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