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Porcelain Mark (2)

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Jun 11, 2010
candle stick
by: peter

Sylvia,

This should be enough. Actually, I wanted to look at the way the eye of the child looking towards the front was painted, because eyes and faces were different in the 20th century, more western style, but the bottom image also confirms what I thought.
1. This looks like a stamp on an unglazed bottom. If it were antique, then an unglazed bottom would have an incised or impressed mark. Painted or stamped marks were usually under the glaze. Also the number (4) should not be there if it were antique.
2. The red mark is a faux Qianlong (18th century) mark. But, Qianlong marks like this did not exist until far into the 20th century. They were always hand-painted and almost always blue.
I don't think this is a fake imitating an earlier item either, it just looks like a more recently made product to me.

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