Posted 8 years ago
Jeremygregg
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This bowl was purchased by my great aunt in the 1930's from an antique store in Portland Oregon. I inherited it about 10 years ago but only know that it is Chinese and the writing on the bottom says Acoun which means Ao Village Produced. Does any one know any additional information about this piece. I am really interested to know the approximate age and what part of China it may have originated from.
Thank you,
Jeremy
The mark in photo 2 is upside down.
Thank you. I have turned the photo around.
Here is a link, which has an explanation on how to read the character marks, as well as many examples of both Chinese and Japanese marks
http://www.gotheborg.com/index.htm
Thank you very much for the gotheborg link.
Cheers,
Jeremy
Hi Jeremy ... it is stll upside down.
Thanks. Think I have it right now hopefully.
Right now .... thanks. Are you sure it is Chinese and not Japanese ???
To my eye it looks similar to the Satsuma Meiji ware.
Check out Thousand Flowers.
I am pretty sure it is Chinese but you are right it does look a lot like the Satsuma Meiji ware. I did have a Chinese friend translate the mark on the bottom and she didn't mention it being anything other than Chinese characters.
Definitely Chinese. I checked with my friend that did the translation.
It's Satsuma - Japanese - Japanese has at least 2 type of writing. And this is 100% Japanese satsuma thousand flowers. A very value item.
this is definitely Japanese Satsuma. nice piece!
Thank you both Japaneaseantiquecollector and Ho2cultcha!
totally agree with japanese antique collector , this is late mejji , but can,t break the kanji, this is good stuff