Featured INFO ON SIGNED ANTIQUE CHINESE CARVED WOODEN BOWL

It is a long story when we say how lacquer skill comes from. Also there's a long history for chinese use bronze in lacquerware.



This is a late West Han Dynasty bowl ware and the base is bronze. There were even bronze lacquer wares found attributes to Shang Dynasty. Bronze lacquer skills developed fast in Warring States Period (475–221 BC). And they became popular in Han Dynasty (206BC - 220 AD).

 

Lacquer originally comes from lacquer tree or vanish tree. They can not only be applied on wood but also be applied on metal, cane, skin, cloth, paper, ceramic and plastic.

 

Actually I looked at it with a magnifying glass & I believe it is wood on the inside painted black - lacquer? - but it does have a brass ring around it's base that it sits on. Could that have been added later?
Is this 1700s - 1800s?
Thanks again all!
PS - Sorry, I left part of my latest find; a 1915 Duntley floor sweeper in the photo!

 

I don't think anyone thinks it is that old. Either late Qing - which lasted to 1911, or later than that in republic period. Looks like brass rim on top too, so all brass seems very likely to me, but only you can hold it to be sure.

Check it with your magnifier for grain lines like explained in the link I gave - I don't see any and it should have them, but we can't magnify from out here.

 

The rim looks pretty thin, looks like brass:


Edit:
Jeff and I were typing at the same time, and yes, late Qing. Republic Period would be nice, because of the recent demand for Republic art and wares, but this looks slightly earlier to me.

 

The characters at the base are "Da Qing Qian Long Nian Zhi" (made in the year of Qian Long.) I would not bet my life on it though. My guess is that some Chinese "antiques" dealer carved that on the bottom just to fool a less informed potential buyer. The inscription looks recently "scratched" to me.

 

Best not to, with Chinese dynastic attributions. And Qianlong 'marks' are the most popular apocryphal marks.

 

They look Ming to me: https://zentnercollection.com/product/ming-dynasty-chinese-pair-of-carved-lacquer-bowls/. Congratulations -- very nice!

 

Kelly, how can it be Ming (1368-1644) when it has an apocryphal Qianlong mark on the base?
Qianlong reigned in the 18th century, so long after the Ming dynasty ended, and with Chinese marks 'apocryphal' means it was made after the Qianlong period.

 

Probably he means "MingTian（明天 tomorrow）" rather than Ming