My first snuff dishes !
A 1 1/2" porcelain with pots/floral motif with Juren Tang (居人堂) mark, meaning the Hall of Residence.
The following from Gotheborg's...
"Research indicates that "Juren Tang" in Zhongnanhai was the building where Yuan Shikai lived and where he had his office around 1915. Guo Baochang, an antique dealer with a good relation to the court, was appointed to arrange for imperial Hongxian wares being made in 1916. What really came out of this is still debated. One opinion is that no pieces bearing the Hongxian mark is of the period, the only possibly genuine mark of the period being "Jurentang", if any."
The very last two pics ( below ) are an example of a matching set..
Then also a turquoise and white colored glass dish, carved in the same manner as an overlay bottle.
Then the third is enamal on copper showing the ( thank you Inn Bok ! ) Ghost-Buster ' Zhong Kui ' and the Chinese characters carry the meaning of ghost-busting.
The four Chinese characters are [ 天中避邪 ]。
The first two [ 天 ( tian ) 中 ( zhong ) ] refers to the ' Tian Zhong festival ' which falls on the Lunar
Calendar's 5th month 5th day. It is also known as the ' Dumpling festival ' when Chinese will eat
steamed glutinous rice wrapped in leaf.
In old Chinese tradition, people used to hand Zhong Kui's print / painting to rid of the the demonics,
hence ' ghost-busting '.
Some tradition says that [ 避邪 ] refers to some legendary animal of a lion with wings.
A 1 1/2" porcelain with pots/floral motif with Juren Tang (居人堂) mark, meaning the Hall of Residence.
The following from Gotheborg's...
"Research indicates that "Juren Tang" in Zhongnanhai was the building where Yuan Shikai lived and where he had his office around 1915. Guo Baochang, an antique dealer with a good relation to the court, was appointed to arrange for imperial Hongxian wares being made in 1916. What really came out of this is still debated. One opinion is that no pieces bearing the Hongxian mark is of the period, the only possibly genuine mark of the period being "Jurentang", if any."
The very last two pics ( below ) are an example of a matching set..
Then also a turquoise and white colored glass dish, carved in the same manner as an overlay bottle.
Then the third is enamal on copper showing the ( thank you Inn Bok ! ) Ghost-Buster ' Zhong Kui ' and the Chinese characters carry the meaning of ghost-busting.
The four Chinese characters are [ 天中避邪 ]。
The first two [ 天 ( tian ) 中 ( zhong ) ] refers to the ' Tian Zhong festival ' which falls on the Lunar
Calendar's 5th month 5th day. It is also known as the ' Dumpling festival ' when Chinese will eat
steamed glutinous rice wrapped in leaf.
In old Chinese tradition, people used to hand Zhong Kui's print / painting to rid of the the demonics,
hence ' ghost-busting '.
Some tradition says that [ 避邪 ] refers to some legendary animal of a lion with wings.
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