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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;&#039;Nuff_Said, post: 59885, member: 181&quot;]Thanks guys, but I must admit, the tile was the dollar item and probably the most valuable of the two pieces. The watch did come at a steal (not as good as the five-figure watch we purchased a couple pages back <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />), and glad to have been able to pick it up for pennies on the dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The tile is adhered to an old brass box lid dating to the early-20th C. engraved with a dragon and clouds. I&#039;ve never seen a tile like this before (not that I&#039;ve seen everything in the Asian art field). Usually they&#039;re in a much larger rectangular form, or the larger roof tile figural forms, or small round form, etc. My guess is the title dates to the previous dynasty (<u>probably</u> Ming?) and could have been once part of a palace interior given the imperial yellow glaze. The Chinese in this era (late-19th/early-20th C.) often adhered or affixed older pieces of objet d&#039;art to &quot;modern&quot; items to make them more attractive to Western tourist as evident in this linked video:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201301T16.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201301T16.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201301T16.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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