Posted 10 years ago
rhunt44
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I found this beautiful urn at a thrift store, so I do not know any history. I have been trying to research the mark, but it looks more like hieroglyphs than any language I recognize. Any ideas out there?
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China. The marks on Chinese porcelain are mostly written in either Kai shu (kaishu) (normal script) or Zhuan shu (zhuanshu) (archaic seal script). In this case they are Zhuan shu. But I think these marks are modern versions of the antique style.
Thanks vetraio50. Any idea what the marks mean or the age of the piece?
Underglaze blue mark in Chinese Zhuanshu characters read from right to left: Heng Ming Jian Zhi flanked from right to left by Ao Men meaning; Macau. The four characters in the middle can be translated as "Heng Ming supervised Production" where the third character jian means "inspect", and the forth, zhi mean manufactured. Tentative date around 1980.