Help With Age Of Porcelain Trinket Box

[kardinalisimo]

Sorry for the partial photos. Can someone suggest an aged based on them? The mark on the bottom is pretty faded.
thanks

[kardinalisimo]

New, old?

[kardinalisimo]

I took better photos and turned that the mark reads "CHINA" . I know that from 1919 the the word "CHINA" should have been replaced by the phrase "Made in China" but you can find even recent pieces marked with just "china". What else I should look at to determine the age?
thanks

[peterp]

The mark and bottom make this item look as if it was old, but the decoration looks to fresh.
The mark says "CHINA", it would have been used in the first quarter of the 20th century. The decoration is a republic period decoration. Ladies painted in this style appear on many of the early republic period items. But, usually there is also gilt on the same decoration or along the rim. This and some other colors will be faded or otherwise show age signs. This one looks unused.
On my desk stand a little brush pot with this type of decoration, and I am not sure if it is antique or not, for the above reasons. The only way is to keep it and wait if a similar with clear age signs comes around somewhere...

[kardinalisimo]

Thanks for the reply. I keep looking to find similar one but no luck so far.
Don't know if the decoration is new but the porcelain itself looks old to me. No gilt traces found but some green paint? leftover on the underside of the lid's rim. Also, some red paint spill at the lower left of the cover. I am assuming recent reproduction would not have those flaws.

Sorry to ask in here but did you by any chance took a look at my topic about the vase with the foodogs handles?

[peterp]

>>I am assuming recent reproduction would not have those flaws

That is a problem we all have to fight with. Unfortunately, these flaws in the decoration or glaze can and are produced artificially, in the same way as many age signs can be fake. Much of the copying is still going on by hand. So, the next step would be to check the foot and glaze for material density, bubbles and other traces, that may indicate the production method of the material used.