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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;&#039;Nuff_Said, post: 20868, member: 181&quot;]You are welcome so much!</p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t write that teapot off just yet if I were you. I gave a probable date of late-20th C. or possibly a bit later, but this dating doesn&#039;t mean the pot is junk. I just sold a 1980s Yixing pot for just under $800. So just because it was made in the last quarter of the 20th C. doesn&#039;t make it crap. There was one piece I believe a year or so ago, when we were at auction, dating to the 1980s and that piece sold for nearly $20K. These pots don&#039;t have to be &quot;antique&quot; in order to fetch really good money. The ones you want to go after are the pieces made in the 1980s on back. Even some pieces from the 1990s can fetch good cash.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, there&#039;s nothing &quot;fake&quot; about your jar. I might not know what the mark translates as, but a know your piece isn&#039;t fake. Below is a link to a very similar melon-shaped jar that sold for $98: <a href="http://www.rubylane.com/item/386639-RL-664/Japanese-Biscuit-Jar-w-Lobed-Melon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.rubylane.com/item/386639-RL-664/Japanese-Biscuit-Jar-w-Lobed-Melon" rel="nofollow">http://www.rubylane.com/item/386639-RL-664/Japanese-Biscuit-Jar-w-Lobed-Melon</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Last, I think your cast iron &quot;Buddha&quot; piece is a Japanese mask of a child. <u>Probably</u> dating to the first half of the 20th C. Again, I&#039;m not sure what the mark reads.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope the above helps?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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