Chinese Ceramics & Antiques Discussion

Antique Chinese Ceramics => Chinese Ceramics Discussion => Topic started by: calder on Aug 15, 2014, 06:55:44

Title: Kangxi brush pot?
Post by: calder on Aug 15, 2014, 06:55:44
Ceramic brush pot.
I have seen very few inscribed marks before- why do this when the have pigments?
Height 13cm
Thoughts
Title: Re: Kangxi brush pot?
Post by: calder on Aug 15, 2014, 06:56:15
More.
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Post by: calder on Aug 15, 2014, 06:58:28
Apologies if you have to squint your head looking at the  marks. :]
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Post by: peterp on Aug 15, 2014, 08:02:42
Unglazed bottoms do not usually have marks.
This one was likely added after firing.
Title: Re: Kangxi brush pot?
Post by: calder on Aug 16, 2014, 07:32:38
Cheers Peter.
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Post by: Stan on Aug 16, 2014, 10:11:34
Hi Calder, just out of curiosity, I bought a brush pot the same color as yours and I found out that the glaze glows in the dark, mine has a crackle and your appears to not have a crackle glaze, but hold your brush pot up to a light and take it to a dark area and see if it glows, if it dose it was probably made in the same place as mine, mine turned out to be not old.
Title: Re: Kangxi brush pot?
Post by: calder on Aug 16, 2014, 16:58:26
Hi Stan What properties would the porcelain have for it to glow?
This one  does not.
Title: Re: Kangxi brush pot?
Post by: Stan on Aug 16, 2014, 20:00:54
Hi Calder, I can't remember the town, but Peter was very explanatory of the place and the luminescent mineral that was used, it only comes from a certain place in China and is no longer used because of cost, it was very expensive to manufacture and therefore it is not being used to day, but you can look under the archives under on of my posts, it would probably be under Chinese brush pot, I will look later when I have more time and find the town and mineral.