Iron Red Chinese/Japanese Bowls

My partner is Chinese and she can read the bottom characters which may be Chinese or Japanese. Bottom left: was made (zao). Bottom right: makers name (man). The top two characters are baffling us both. Does anyone recognise either of the top two characters on this mark. This is a set of six iron/coral red cups with floral peonies and Chinese inscription ge pin fu gui which we are also unable to translate in either Japanese or Chinese. Any help on this would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

 

I found the top left mark on

http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturychina.shtml

is anyone able to shed some light on the top right mark from my cups above?

 

Nice bowls, great colour. They could be Japanese. Maybe @Mat knows more.

 

They are Chinese, the colour is called "coral red". A Republic period (1912-1949) date seems right to me. The mark you found is close, but not identical. You could try this resource which has a lot of Republic marks: https://watersilkdragon.wordpress.c...-republic-1912-1949-and-other-marks-overview/

 

Thank you, @Mat .

 

Great site, this is the one:

"Cao Kun Chang Zao_14_13, Made by Cao Kun Chang, company or artist"

 

You can read Chinese..... OMG.....
They do republic period porcelain sets, made by Chao Kun Chang in Jiangxi Province. He is a famous artist... (not top tier famous, but could be count as tier2 or tier 3 famous). The whole set could worth multiple thousand RMB if sell in China.

 

My knowledge of Chinese is 100% fake.

 

This is another "Cao Kun Chang Made" vase, which is totally hand painted.

 

Nice Asian Fever Would love to see the side with the roses.

 

This is not mine nor my friend's. Just a pic found on website. So I cannot provide side pic with roses pattern.