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Title: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: veggieguy on October 25, 2013, 07:00:52 PM: I picked this up for cheap at an auction, because it was so visually interesting (and my wife thought it quite special). Since bringing it home, we've tried for hours to research it online but have come up empty. I imagine we just don't know the magical term, so I'm hoping one of you might have seen something similar before. I expect it is vintage (at best) rather than antique.

All I know is that it's Chinese, based on three sets of symbols it bears. There are no markings on the bottom, and nothing that would indicate a maker or artist. A friend of a friend translated the Chinese as:

1. Safety around whole year
2. Waterfall
3. Beautiful Scenery

Below are some snapshots. Thank you!
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: mart on October 25, 2013, 07:09:31 PM: Ipcress may have an idea on your item !! Maybe he can take a look tomorrow !! I am just not sure that it was made there even though its made in that style !! If it was,,, then was made strictly for the tourist market !!
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: bigwull on October 25, 2013, 07:12:05 PM: Och aye ..thats Scottish for Hawkeye.....aka the Ip man will know what this is... ;D.
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: KC on October 26, 2013, 01:31:25 PM: Tourist item.
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: mart on October 26, 2013, 02:08:11 PM: That's what I said KC !!! Do you know what its called ??
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: veggieguy on October 26, 2013, 02:21:14 PM: Thanks, all. I'm not surprised to hear it's a tourist item, but I'm still puzzled why I can't find any others online. I'm guessing it hinges on what these things are actually called. Hopeful that somebody will know.
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: bigwull on October 26, 2013, 02:54:57 PM: Quote from: mart on October 26, 2013, 02:08:11 PM
That's what I said KC !!! Do you know what its called ??
Yeah....its a tourist item.....LOL!!
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: mart on October 26, 2013, 04:17:27 PM: Not exactly what I meant Wullie :D !!
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: daxu on October 26, 2013, 04:22:53 PM: The second translation should be Shuilian Cave.

see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuilian_Cave
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: bigwull on October 26, 2013, 04:25:52 PM: KC...Tourist item!!...you...That's what I said KC !!!....me Tourist item....but thats not what you meant....LOL!!.....well what did you mean.....
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: bigwull on October 26, 2013, 04:34:58 PM: Quote from: daxu on October 26, 2013, 04:22:53 PM
The second translation should be Shuilian Cave.

see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuilian_Cave

Daxu....you get a Coconut...and a cookie...well done...
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: Ipcress on October 26, 2013, 05:14:16 PM: Not sure the Shuilian Cave would feature a geiko with her breasts out but this is a modern item so... ;D
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: icedgold10 on October 26, 2013, 05:41:14 PM: Quote from: Ipcress on October 26, 2013, 05:14:16 PM
Not sure the Shuilian Cave would feature a geiko with her breasts out but this is a modern item so... ;D

;D ;D
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: bigwull on October 26, 2013, 06:09:32 PM: maybe we should just call you the titman instead of the Ipman...me i like them also...i,ve got a garden full of them............... ...............
.....blue tits, great tits, and the odd long tailed tit.... ;D
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: mart on October 26, 2013, 08:09:56 PM: ;D Time for me to go to bed !! I ain`t biting on that one !!
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: greenacres on October 26, 2013, 09:16:24 PM: ;D ;D mart, that sounded funny.
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: KC on October 26, 2013, 10:32:56 PM: Hey Wullie...I think it must be a tourist item! :)
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: bigwull on October 27, 2013, 02:48:15 AM: Quote from: mart on October 26, 2013, 08:09:56 PM
;D Time for me to go to bed !! I ain`t biting on that one !!
Whatever do you mean,Mart..... :o....would i do that to you,I was only referring to these beautiful wee burdies...that come into our garden...to feed on my nuts,... ;D
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: mart on October 27, 2013, 10:02:01 AM: Yes Wullie !! I knew that !! You have mentioned them before !! BUT !! You were hoping I had forgotten and would bite on that joke knowing that we don`t have birds here by that name !! And then,,,,I can hear you laughing Wullie, saying yep,, I got the old gal !!! ;D ;D Right ???
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: bigwull on October 27, 2013, 11:59:34 AM: WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LLLL!!......i may have been trying fox you.....but you are becoming a cagey.. old burd.....but that,does,nt mean..i,ll give up trying..... ;D
Title: Re: Help identify this Chinese oddity
Post by: mart on October 27, 2013, 06:28:41 PM: I know !! But I know you pretty well by now !! ;D