Chinese porcelain book ends.

[Stan]

Hi Peter, I picked these up at an estate sale, I am not sure how old they are but the colors are light pastel colors making me think  early republic possible, I did not pay much for them I thought they were interesting pieces, can you tell me if their is anything in the Characters that would suggest age, the size of these are 22.8 cm tall, thank you.

[Stan]

Here are the last of the photo's, thank again.

[peterp]

Not very old, Stan. Looks like modern book stoppers.
The black rectangles with three characters say "Daote jing", a scripture.
The explanation is in the second line of this page: tinyurl.com/y8lv25jl

[Stan]

Thanks Peter, Im glad I did not pay that much.