Could I please have your opinion on a piece I recently bought. It seems to be a antique Chinese teapot but some things do not seem to be right. It is printed, the circle mark is not in the centre of the surface and there is a metal screw on top of the cover. Does anyone have an idea. Thanks.
If the whole decoration was printed, that means it was made in the more recent decades and is not a collectible antique.
Thanks. We are reading that the transfer printing technique started in the 18th Century. If I find some interesting info about that piece, I will post it anyway. Thanks again.
That is in Europe, probably. Japan started using it in the 19th century, but China it was quite far into the 20th, as far as I know; and it never became really popular. Why should it, there is still much porcelain hand-painted today, and it is cheap.