In the world of ming and qing dynasty art knowing how to look at a reign mark is a key asset for any collector specialist or enthusiast to correctly identify the date and the value of a piece of chinese porcelain.
Chinese blue and white porcelain marks.
I believe your photograph of the signature mark on the back of your porcelain plate is upside down.
Reign marks can be found on chinese ceramics mainly from the early ming dynasty 15 th century through to the qing dynasty 1644.
See a comparison of chinese and non chinese marks.
6 in 17 5 cm diameter.
Jingwei tang zhi hall marks in underglaze blue within a double square qing dynasty 18th century.
Identifying chinese porcelain involves more than just knowing the mark in order to decide age and manufacturer as many novices do believe.
Blue and white pottery chinese.
The dates are almost exclusively given as chinese cyclical dates which are repeated in 60th year cycles without a reference to the period of the reigning emperor it is thus possible to by mistake date a piece 60 years back or forward in time.
A characteristic of 15th century blue and white porcelain for example was the so called heaped and piled effect in which the cobalt blue underglaze was concentrated in certain areas bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue black.
Comments on rikki s blue and white porcelain plate.
Reign marks were usually painted in cobalt blue on the base of the piece but can also be on the neck or the main body.
The identification and authentication of chinese porcelain is a complex process of an overall verification of a number of factors.
Ming porcelain would be nice.
This mark is found on a large group of blue white porcelain.
Widely used in modern replicas.
Beautiful blue and white porcelain bowl from the ming dynasty the exterior is painted with a continues lotus scroll in the interior peony spray with leafy branches surrounded by double border line with continues leafs attached to six flowers the bottom is marked with emperor xuande mark 1425 1435 a d.
A useful reference book is the handbook of marks on chinese ceramics gerald.
Blue flowers patterns covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment generally cobalt oxide the decoration is commonly applied by hand originally by brush painting but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer printing though other methods of application have also been used.
A pair of blue and white and iron red decorated dragon dishes.
Blue and white porcelain was reserved for special occasions or used for diplomatic gifts.
This is a list of chinese porcelain pieces that have been decorated in such a way that the decoration includes a date.
I know wishful thinking thanks rikki.
The marks tell us who was the emperor when the porcelain was produced.
The mark first appeared in the kangxi period and became popular in the late qing to the early republic period 1900 1950.
