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Message:: [QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 10208595, member: 10944"]To me it’s definitely wanting to be Chinese rather than Japanese. It was confusing the hell out of me until Chinoiserie mentioned their namesake. It’s gotta be another culture/place making something in the Chinese style. The colors aren’t quite right for a Chinese made piece to my eye. I also don’t know that to be a traditional Chinese form, though I may be wrong. The daisy like flowers along the top border and the lower flowers don’t look at all like Chinese representations of flowers to me either. The figures are done quite well. They seemed to pay the most attention to those. The woman reading is pretty accurate to what she would look like on a Chinese made piece from the 18th century outside of the colors used. The other figures are good but look a bit cartoony. The guy with the large Caligraphy brush, his clothes are particularly wrong looking. I can see why Chinese flowers would be harder to replicate in a way. You’d have to change your outlook altogether in a way to paint them the way the Chinese did. It’s an interesting thing and it’s good looking but I think the previous posters are correct, not Chinese made. If it is Chinese made it was to appeal to some weird western taste. I don’t know who else would have made it though. Wouldn’t be a Fredrick Cooper type thing would it?[/QUOTE]