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Motif from a porcelain "guan". Jiajing mark and reign. Coll. of Casa Museu Dr. Anastasio Goncalves (Lisbon, Portugal)
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White and blue porcelain bowl, ordered in China, in 1541, by Pero de Faria. Xuande apocriphal mark. Coll. Rainha D. Leonor Museum (Beja, Portugal)
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Detail of the so called "Nanking motif" on a dish. Mid 19th century. Private coll. of Antonio Sapage (Macao)
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Detail from a salad bowl copied from an English (Worcester) piece, years 1770-1790. Private coll. of A. Sapage (Macao)
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The budhist symbol "shu" (book or books), one of the "ba bao" (eight precious things) was used as a mark inside two circles during the reign of Kangxi (1662-1722)
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The character "shi" (made) is usualy the last of every "Nianhao" (reign mark). This one comes from a bowl on sale at Sotheby's in 1990. (Carina Tsang in "Hong Kong connoisseur", nr.1, Oct. 1990)
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Nobody really knows where this "home" is... This non-Chinese motif once called by antiquarians the "Tanegashima island" is now believed to have been copied by Chinese potters from a Dutch landscape. Private coll. of A. Sapage (Macao)