Japanese little pot

[Mathieu2400]

Hello everybody,

I wanted to have your opinion on this item i have.
It's a small pot. The height is 9 cm.
My chinese girlfriend says that the mark on the bottom may be japanese, so i post in the japanese items section of the forum.

Unfortunately, there is a litlle breach on the upper part. An the lid seems to be repaired too.
Otherwise, the pot looks good. The porcelaine is very thin and light.

I hope you can say me more about this object. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

[Mathieu2400]

More pictures ;)

[peterp]

The Japanese do not use such marks, normally. But many Chinese can not read the zhuanti characters of such marks because they are in an archaic writing style.

[Mathieu2400]

Ah ok, so it is chinese.
As my girlfriend couldn't read it, she concluded wrongly that it was japanese. I will tell her :)

Do you think it could be old or it's a recently made object ?