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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 260086, member: 2844"]The Chinese bowl looks late 19th-early 20th century, and frankly could have been bought anywhere. The mark looks like an imperial seal, but this item wasn't produced in an imperial workshop.</p><p>So yes, the period of the Silk Road. An extremely long period, which has never really stopped. Most of it is not an actual road, but a trade network. Wars always shut down parts of it temporarily, and it did experience competition from shipping after the Suez canal was opened. It is currently being reorganised by China and several Central Asian countries for the benefit of modern trade.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are still Jewish communities in non-Israeli parts of the Middle East, even in Iran, but I agree this looks very Israeli. A tourist item, with that latin script alongside the Hebrew.</p><p>Persian Jews also moved to Israel, and brought their very distinctive Persian Jewish style with them. The rose motif at the bottom of the central medallion could be Persian-inspired, so there is a slight possibility that this was made by a Persian Jew in Israel.</p><p>Some people in the Middle East are very good at enhancing or making up stories to make a living, even more so than in the West. They quickly know what degree of exotism or exclusivity a Western buyer is looking for. The stories are nice, but say very little about the item.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 260086, member: 2844"]The Chinese bowl looks late 19th-early 20th century, and frankly could have been bought anywhere. The mark looks like an imperial seal, but this item wasn't produced in an imperial workshop. So yes, the period of the Silk Road. An extremely long period, which has never really stopped. Most of it is not an actual road, but a trade network. Wars always shut down parts of it temporarily, and it did experience competition from shipping after the Suez canal was opened. It is currently being reorganised by China and several Central Asian countries for the benefit of modern trade. There are still Jewish communities in non-Israeli parts of the Middle East, even in Iran, but I agree this looks very Israeli. A tourist item, with that latin script alongside the Hebrew. Persian Jews also moved to Israel, and brought their very distinctive Persian Jewish style with them. The rose motif at the bottom of the central medallion could be Persian-inspired, so there is a slight possibility that this was made by a Persian Jew in Israel. Some people in the Middle East are very good at enhancing or making up stories to make a living, even more so than in the West. They quickly know what degree of exotism or exclusivity a Western buyer is looking for. The stories are nice, but say very little about the item.[/QUOTE]
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