Chinese Porcelain Marks
Seal marks from the period can also be written in a cartouche or with the seal broken up and on the base of stem cups written in a horizontal row from right to left.
Chinese porcelain marks. The origin of reign marks. It is said that the only rule that is really certain when it comes to chinese reign marks is that most of them are not from the period they say. Chinese porcelain reign marks identification making sense of chinese reign marks. The writing of.
A number of old businesses in san francisco chinatown have this same tai character as the last one in a three character name for example jiu jong tai fa ming tai guang xing tai etc. If carefully studied they offer a great help in identifying the date and maker of most chinese porcelain. Still the marks are something of a fingerprint of the potter and its time. On a small group of porcelain genuine marks in raised blue enamel can appear.
Almost at the same time that the chinese invented porcelain they also invented marks and copies sometimes to learn sometimes to honor sometimes to deceive sometimes to replace sometimes just to meet a demand. Marks on later chinese porcelain. Zhang yi probably signifies the name of a company tai. In straits chinese porcelain zhen yi tai is a common mark.
On later qianlong copies the seal mark in red enamel is something of a favorite.