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Posted 8 years ago
cshapiro
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This one has a reign mark, but my friend who's an expert says it's not that old.
Made of copper, the wires were delicately bent and cut to shape and fastened to the copper base - then enamel was ground, packed into the cloisons and fired, often three to four times.
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Beautiful work.
Thanks blunderbuss2!
Think this might be Jingfa, lovely bottle. :)
Awesome!
Very qualified appraisal is needed. It could be a treasure (genuine cloisonne of that period is very rare) or much later or modern Chinese reproduction with starting bid at US $0.01. Patina is very easy to fake with chemicals. The signature does not mean anything, even reputable auction houses make mistakes with Chinese cloisonne.
Interesting comment Ivan! I will have to look that up because it's so difficult to make a bottle like this that I didn't think there would be many fakes - but I have an authentic wedding cup that is old but still newer than this to compare these to. Some authentic things to me are: the pitting, look at the ground on the birds - a good indication of packing ground up blue and white powder, and then look at the colors. These colors are indicative of this period.