Yellow Chinese Vase

[bokaba]

Any information on this vase? It is about 12 inches tall and features cameos of 4 women on it.

[Stan]

To get a better Idea of what you have could you post a photo of the entire bottom at an angle also close up pictures of any age signs and of the detail, this is a must for evaluation.

[bokaba]

Here are a couple more. I will need to wait for Photobucket to come back online so I can upload the base.

[Stan]

Why can't you post a picture of the bottom like you did these photo's.

[bokaba]

Here is the bottom.

[Stan]

Thanks for the additional photo's, this is late 20th century in my opinion, the foot and the mark look fairly recent.

[bokaba]

Thanks Stan. The tight enamel work and cameo paintings caught my eye compared to the usual low-quality work I see in modern fakes. I agree there is not much ware to the foot. Do you have any information about the mark?

[Stan]

I could not the mark in my books, maybe Peter can tell you what the mark means.

[peterp]

This is not the usual zhuanti style found on marks. The first two characters could be Guang Hua  ?  Pin, but not sure. It is a modern mark.

[Hmm]

Not very good at reading Zhuanti, but, the first character is probably shou, ?.  The second character, maybe ??  Third character is probably ? an alternative form of writing ?, and the fourth character pin???

I also think it looks new for what it's worth.

[bokaba]

Thank you for your responses. I have one more question. Most of the modern pieces and fakes I have seen have very poor quality enamel work. Is the decoration on this vase some type of transfer or is it hand-painted?

[Stan]

It is hard to tell with these photo's but my guess is that it is a combination of printing and hand painting.

[peterp]

To Hmm - I am pretty sure the first one is ?. I have checked it with a zhuanti computer font (see image below). The first is ? , the second  is ? .
But I can not get the zhuanti characters for the other two, the font set seems incomplete.