Chinese Porcelain Marks Blue

Marks listed below are from antiques that are about 80 years old or older.

Chinese porcelain marks blue.

Reign marks can play a pivotal role in helping to identify the period in which chinese artefacts were created. This selection of marks below contains mainly chinese porcelain marks of the ming and qing dynasties and a few republic period antique marks. Selection of chinese porcelain marks. The most common marks on porcelain tend to be written in underglaze blue within a double circle.

There was a brief time during the kangxi period in 1667 when the emperor issued an edict forbidding the use of his reign mark on porcelain in case the ceramics were smashed and discarded. This mark is found on a large group of blue white porcelain. Reign marks are usually four or six characters in length and can be found on the base or the side of an item. In the world of ming and qing dynasty art knowing how to look at a reign mark is a key asset for any collector specialist or enthusiast to correctly identify the date and the value of a piece of chinese porcelain.

The dates are almost exclusively given as chinese cyclical dates which are repeated in 60th year cycles without a reference to the period of the reigning emperor it is thus possible to by mistake date a piece 60 years back or forward in time. The mark first appeared in the kangxi period and became popular in the late qing to the early republic period 1900 1950. Later reigns often used reign marks of earlier emperors on chinese porcelain etc. Mark on chinese porcelain erotic cup.

Widely used in modern replicas. This is a list of chinese porcelain pieces that have been decorated in such a way that the decoration includes a date.