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How do you date Chinese porcelain?

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How do you date Chinese porcelain?

Chinese porcelain can usually be dated by form and decoration. However, copies and forgeries abound, so you should have an expert such as an appraiser, reputable dealer or auction house, or museum examine your porcelain to accurately date it.

Lotus Gallery
Lotus GallerySeptember 15, 2020
Shop for 17th Century Chinese Porcelain on 1stDibs
17th Century Chinese Porcelain Ho Ho Boy Figure in Wucai/Famille Vert Glaze
Located in Southampton, NY
17th Century Chinese Porcelain Ho Ho Boy Figure in Wucai/Famille Vert Glaze.
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Antique 17th Century Chinese Ceramics

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Porcelain

Antique 17th Century Chinese Porcelain Figural Landscape Bowl Marked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very interesting late ming/Transitional bowl. Scene of fishermen drinking tea at a shore line. Its typical late ming potting and decoration, but the base mark is something that wou...
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Antique 17th Century Chinese Ming Ceramics

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Porcelain

Chinese porcelain plate. 17th-century piece.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A Chinese piece from the 17th century. The price is for a single plate.
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Antique 17th Century Chinese Porcelain

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Porcelain

Pair of 17th century porcelain boxes from the Hatcher Cargo
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of 17th century Chinese porcelain blue and white boxes painted with flowering branches of prunus growing from rockwork.
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Antique 1640s Chinese Ceramics

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Porcelain

Rare Chinese Porcelain Ming Period Kosometsuke Incense Burner, ca 1600
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
⁠It's 17th century chinese porcelain, Ming period, made for the Japanese market.
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Antique 16th Century Chinese Jars

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Porcelain

17th Century Chinese Kangxi Porcelain Plate
Located in Kent, Dover
A large XVII Century Kangxi Chinese porcelain plate, hand painted with gold leaf highlights. In good condition, just nibbling to the edges.
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Antique 1690s Chinese Porcelain

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Porcelain

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Japanese Gold Maki-e Lacquer Accessories Box with Tray, Tebako, Meiji Period
Located in Austin, TX
A fine Japanese maki-e lacquer kinji gold ground box for personal accessories or cosmetics, tebako, with a design of autumn flowers and grasses, Meiji Period, circa 1890, Japan. Th...
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer

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Shell, Lacquer, Urushi lacquer

Japanese Gold Maki-e Lacquer Round Box with Bamboo and Tokugawa Mon, Edo Period
Located in Austin, TX
A very fine Japanese gold maki-e lacquer round confectionary box, kashibako, featuring bamboo and Tokugawa mon, late Edo Period, mid 19th century, Japan. The elegant box of circular...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

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Gold Leaf

After Ogata Korin, Japanese Gold Lacquer Round Box, Meiji Period
By Ogata Korin
Located in Austin, TX
A striking Japanese Shijo School kinji gold lacquer round box, kashibako, with a shibayama design of horse and fuyou (cotton rose hibiscus), apocryphally signed Hokkyo Korin for Ogat...
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer

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Pewter

Japanese Rinpa School Lacquer Box with Autumn Flowers, Tebako, Edo Period
Located in Austin, TX
A fine Japanese Rinpa School lacquer box for personal accessories, te-bako, featuring a dense design of autumn flowers and grasses, Edo Period, early to mid 19th century, Japan. Th...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

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Silver, Pewter, Gold Leaf

Japanese Meiji Bronze Vase with Auspicious Animals, circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
An impressive Japanese cast and parcel gilt bronze vase with auspicious animals, Meiji Period, circa 1900, Japan. The striking vase heavily cast and of flattened and modified balust...
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Antique Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Metalwork

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Bronze

Prince Shōtoku at Age 16, Kōyō-Zō Hanging Scroll, Edo/Meiji Period, mid 19th c
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and beautiful Japanese Buddhist devotional kōyō-zō painting of the revered Prince Shōtoku at the age of 16, mineral pigments and gilding on fine silk, silk brocade mounting, h...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Maki-e Lacquer Letter Box, Fubako, Edo Period, mid 19th c
Located in Austin, TX
A striking and powerful Japanese maki-e lacquer fubako, box for letters, with hawk, plum, and Fuji, late Edo Period, circa 1850, Japan. The cover of the fubako wonderfully worked in...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

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Bronze

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