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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 231308, member: 2844"]Hi Jason, yes, for a dollar you can't go wrong, and it is a pretty vase.</p><p>It is modern, probably 2nd half of the 20th century. The picture is likely to be transfer printed, some parts could have been handpainted over the transfer. If you look at the larger colour areas through a loupe, you can probably see tiny dots. That means it is printed.</p><p>There is a great site for Chinese and Japanese marks, this is the page for modern marks:</p><p><a href="http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturychina.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturychina.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturychina.shtml</a></p><p>Hopefully one of our native speakers of Chinese will be along to help you with the text. It is probably a poem or a reference to a story. Or just 'beauty in a garden reading a letter'.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 231308, member: 2844"]Hi Jason, yes, for a dollar you can't go wrong, and it is a pretty vase. It is modern, probably 2nd half of the 20th century. The picture is likely to be transfer printed, some parts could have been handpainted over the transfer. If you look at the larger colour areas through a loupe, you can probably see tiny dots. That means it is printed. There is a great site for Chinese and Japanese marks, this is the page for modern marks: [URL]http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturychina.shtml[/URL] Hopefully one of our native speakers of Chinese will be along to help you with the text. It is probably a poem or a reference to a story. Or just 'beauty in a garden reading a letter'.[/QUOTE]
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