Chinese Ceramics & Antiques Discussion

Antique Chinese Ceramics => Chinese Ceramics Discussion => Topic started by: Qst42know on Sep 13, 2014, 01:06:34

Title: Chicken/Dragon cup
Post by: Qst42know on Sep 13, 2014, 01:06:34
Would this be early Republic or something newer?
Title: Re: Chicken/Dragon cup
Post by: Qst42know on Sep 13, 2014, 01:09:45
It is thin and seems to be high quality porcelain and has a ghost of a circular stamped 7 charecter mark under the word China. I don't know if the ghost image will show in the photos.
Title: Re: Chicken/Dragon cup
Post by: Qst42know on Sep 13, 2014, 05:08:57
I'll rephrase that. I never handled high quality Chinese porcelain,  so "better than average porcelain", sounds more accurate.
Title: Re: Chicken/Dragon cup
Post by: peterp on Sep 13, 2014, 05:57:18
As far as I know this decoration is from about the 1940s or 50s, or even later. The dragon is also from that time.
Title: Re: Chicken/Dragon cup
Post by: Qst42know on Sep 13, 2014, 06:02:47
Thaks PeterP