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Message:: [QUOTE="Asian Fever, post: 350740, member: 4494"]Sorry, I am just back from antique show and got a bunch of sterling silverware which made me late. OK, for this piece, the marking looks like "Da Ming Chenghua"(Great Ming Chenghua), however it reads "Tai Ming Chenghua". This piece is definitely not made in Ming Dynasty.There's two possiblity:First one: This one is made in Early to mid Qing Dynasty in order to memorize the Ming Dynasty. As we know, Qing Dynasty was estiblished by Manju nationality, they put many rules and laws in order to terminate the Han traditional culture and rule the whole nation. They order the whole nation: men have to keep braid;  women have to bound feet, etc. Most Ming Dynasty fashions were prohibited. There's one very famous issue happened in the early Qing Dynasty called "Literary Inquisition". (It happened many times but the one happened in Qing Dynasty is most important, you can google or wiki if interested.) In addition, chinese has a tradition, later dynasty likes to produce newer porcelain after previous dynasty style and reign mark. As a result, those who still memorize Ming Dynasty produced this kind of plate bearing "Tai Ming Chenghua".Second possiblity: Found some reference which shows the pictures that Japanese also made "Tai Ming Chenghua" porcelain. So this piece is also has a high possibility that it's made in Japan. (Just corrected.)[/QUOTE]