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Title: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: Ah Poh on July 07, 2011, 06:02:41 AM: i had this antique bowl from yong zhen.
but dont know whether is authentic anot.
please help ...
Title: Re: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: mariok54 on July 07, 2011, 06:12:34 AM: The script on the base is identical to other pieces of that period, but that really proves nothing, I'm afraid.
Someone else might be able to chip in here, but the best way to authenticate an item like this would be to see it and handle it. My advice would be to take it to an Auction House, or to someone else who has expertise in Chinese ceramics.
Title: Re: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: mart on July 07, 2011, 06:15:13 AM: I doubt it !! Maybe you and the person with the dragon vase in an earlier thread should get together. They look very similar !! I think repro`s to fool tourists !!
Title: Re: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: waywardangler on July 07, 2011, 06:20:34 AM: Yes, more sloppy painting. This artist did not learn how to stay in the lines. I sense a rebel artist or a free spirit.
Title: Re: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: mariok54 on July 07, 2011, 06:29:11 AM: Quote from: waywardangler on July 07, 2011, 06:20:34 AM
Yes, more sloppy painting. This artist did not learn how to stay in the lines. I sense a rebel artist or a free spirit.

How about an 18th Century 'free spirit'! ;D
Title: Re: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: waywardangler on July 07, 2011, 06:36:39 AM: A Romanticist perhaps?
Title: Re: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: mart on July 07, 2011, 08:43:33 AM: Wayward,, can you post the dragon vase and this bowl together ?? I am curious about them !!
Title: Re: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: waywardangler on July 07, 2011, 09:16:04 AM: OK
Title: Re: Please help to verify this antique bowl
Post by: mart on July 07, 2011, 09:28:45 AM: Possibly a few years apart but still the same ?? Thanks Wayward !! Still think tourist type items and sloppy painting !!