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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rhiwfield, post: 360976, member: 924&quot;]Just picking up on this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not think this is recent manufacture. It has wear commensurate with age, patchy residual glaze, rim abrasion, a coloured rim chip, worn decoration, underglaze staining. It feels right for being old, if not 19thC then early 20th.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that the chinese make some a large number of fakes, and I spot them in auction rooms regularly. I don&#039;t think this is such a piece but admit to the possibility of being wrong</p><p><br /></p><p>The stand is pottery, not gilt metal and not original to piece or of a similar quality. It also looks later. Why someone would choose to fix the stand to the bowl is beyond me, unless the owners parties were very lively! I cannot see what the Chinese would gain from this. Sure it hides any makers marks but the bowl is <u>g</u>ood quality and forged makers marks would be similarly good?</p><p><br /></p><p>All said, I&#039;ll stick with original thoughts as likely age and origin, noting that some will disagree!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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