Temple Warrior Jar with Coin Mark

[smak]

Hi,

When was this made and what was this made for? Could this be a funeral jar?

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[peterp]

Hi smak,
This is a low quality fake, I'm afraid.
The eyes never have been painted that way, and the overall painting style and quality does not appear to be right.  But the glaze is the easiest to recognize as fake. Even in the worst of items made for the common people you will hardly encounter a glaze with so many inclusions as this. This is just not possible unless it was made intentionally that way ... somehow people often think dirty or damaged items must be genuine. The fakers know this and make them intentionally that way. Please keep this in mind when evaluation items.
Natural glaze inclusions usually are the result of flying ash particles in the kiln, but this cannot get as bad as it is here.
And no, I do not think this is for burial. One reason is that funeral wares were frequent until about the Yuan dynasty. Afterwards, apart from epitaphs and the like there were much fewer items made for that purpose. What was buried were often everyday items rather than specifically made burial wares. But the custom of burying items was greatly reduced by then.

The 富 character in the mark is correctly written with one stroke less, as it would have been done in the Ming dynasty, but the fourth of the characters on the side the fourth is written 义 which is used in today's simplified characters in use in China. Not sure what the meaning of this is, but if this really is simplified Chinese then this item is already wrong because of this.