Featured $5.99 Chinese Thrift Store Vase Sells for $5 MILLION

I can dream, right? The only part of the title that is true is the price I paid at a thrift store. So, now that you are hear reading this, what do you think about it? It looks hand coiled?? No markings. Chinese or Japanese? As always, THANKS for any info!

 

Wow! Knock-your-socks-off, eye-popping colors! I've never seen that shade of orange on Japanese/Chinese porcelain.

I think you mean hand turned or wheel thrown, not coiled. But also, the person who does the "trimmer" job can make pottery from a mold have that "spun" look, by using a wet sponge or rag to remove the mold marks, by spinning the fresh from the mold piece on a potters wheel. I did that job after school and on week-ends all first semester of freshman year, long, long ago in the 70s.

 

I'd say Geisha girl - so Japanese.

Adding:
I keep thinking there is a famous painting that looks like her.

 

Yeah but that was Lira right?
So you LOST money.
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I like it because I like bright colors. Most such things are muted.

 

Hold on to that dream!

 

Japanese. Could be early 20th. Or maybe later?

 

I'm no expert but these kinds of similar vases are probably still being made. The colours are so neon that I'd assume it's late 1980s.

It's beautiful though, in its crass brightness.

 

This is just my impression but I seem to find that bright yellow with a black rim on pre-WWII pieces. It really rather will done for its type - not sloppy at all. Well worth the $5.99. I suspect, though, that if it was worth $5 million you wouldn't have found it in a Chinese thrift shop. It's been my experience that they usually recognize their own antiques!
Don

 

I keep thinking she is supposed to represent someone.

Maybe Madame Butterfly.

 

You crack me up. Keep dreaming. One of these days you'll find someone's dog drinking out of a Ming Dynasty bowl and get it for $1 and it'll be worth millions.

 

Bev,

If I fill it with water and have my dog drink out of it, will that help?

 

Don,

Found it at an American thrift shop. Not Chinese, lol.

 

Those colors are making me think this is recent. It's a better quality than normally turns up in import shops here, but it's not an old one. It'll do to hold a supermarket bouquet for certain.

 

I was waiting for AF to say it was made by some blokes in a shed in Chelsea or something