Featured And the Chinese bits

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  1. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Can anyone read the mark on the cloisonne please?

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  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Love the little elephant.
    Not sure that will do anything valuewise. It is a cute little perfume bottle, sans lid, which used to hang from a chain. Not very old, just very cute, and a popular colour.
     
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  3. Ce BCA

    Ce BCA Well-Known Member

    Lan Feng Jing, first character can mean orchid, second two are probably a name (reading right to left).
     
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  4. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Thanks both! It's staying with me, I'll find a chain. The elephant might be gold, I need to test.
     
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  5. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    You can give it a little stopper by glueing a nice matching stone cabochon on a wee cork. A rosequartz cabochon would look very pretty, and it matches the flowers.
     
  6. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Oh, good idea. I've got some wee cabs.
     
  7. JayBee

    JayBee Well-Known Member

    景泰兰 (兰 or 蓝) / jing tai lan, or cloisonne, read in this case left to right.
     
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  8. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Aha! That makes perfect sense.;)
     
  9. Ce BCA

    Ce BCA Well-Known Member

    Ha, so many things in Chinese to trip you up - interesting they used the character for orchid for the lan rather than the usual character- may be a play on words given the subject on the piece.
     
  10. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Those little jade elephant charms along with jade Buddha charms, both trimmed in gold, were popular on charm bracelets in the 1960s.

    Debora
     
  11. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I've got arather nice jade buddha, if I can find his photo.....
     
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