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<p>[QUOTE="Wintergreen, post: 648070, member: 10965"]Hello! This is my first post on here, so forgive me if I do anything I’m not supposed to.</p><p><br /></p><p>I visited an antique store today in Spain and found these two vases that I fell in love with. I tried to communicate with the shop owner about them, but my translate app and my internet were both not working well, so communication was based off of my high school Spanish and plenty of gesticulations. Suffice it to say I got that they were Chinese and from the 1800’s. That being said I agreed and haggled as best I could and left with the vases. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I’m worried I didn’t spend time trying to authenticate them, and would like to know if they seem real and what their actual value would be. I will say that they aren’t just painted but seems like there’s small engraving outlining the paintings. I can post a few pics I took, but I didn’t see any marks on the bottom (didn’t take any pics), and they’re all wrapped up now for travel back home so I’ll try to take more pics if I need to, but might not be able to until I get home in several days. Thanks for you help![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Wintergreen, post: 648070, member: 10965"]Hello! This is my first post on here, so forgive me if I do anything I’m not supposed to. I visited an antique store today in Spain and found these two vases that I fell in love with. I tried to communicate with the shop owner about them, but my translate app and my internet were both not working well, so communication was based off of my high school Spanish and plenty of gesticulations. Suffice it to say I got that they were Chinese and from the 1800’s. That being said I agreed and haggled as best I could and left with the vases. Now I’m worried I didn’t spend time trying to authenticate them, and would like to know if they seem real and what their actual value would be. I will say that they aren’t just painted but seems like there’s small engraving outlining the paintings. I can post a few pics I took, but I didn’t see any marks on the bottom (didn’t take any pics), and they’re all wrapped up now for travel back home so I’ll try to take more pics if I need to, but might not be able to until I get home in several days. Thanks for you help![/QUOTE]
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