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StoneGloves Nov 13, 2010 17:13:55
Replying to moss

No, it's just a pair of carp, in the springtime! It's odd, really, because the mass-produced (child labour, slave labour, brown coal-fired) blue and white pieces fetch next to nothing. Not even the best bits go for much. Instead of a cyclical date, on the base, the more recent stuff just says 'Made In China'. At least we know what to look for now - unmarked polychrome specimens, with the Imperial seal.

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Nov 13, 2010 17:20:33
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
No, it's just a pair of carp, in the springtime! It's odd, really, because the mass-produced (child labour, slave labour, brown coal-fired) blue and white pieces fetch next to nothing. Not even the best bits go for much. Instead of a cyclical date, on the base, the more recent stuff just says 'Made In China'. At least we know what to look for now - unmarked polychrome specimens, with the Imperial seal.
Bugger... just when I thought we were going to be minted as just about everything in our house was 'Made in China'!!!

L Littlestone
Littlestone Nov 13, 2010 19:16:01
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
No, it's just a pair of carp, in the springtime!
Actually the Two Carp motif is quite a common theme in Far Eastern art (even today). Two carp who swim upstream to a place in the Yangtze
River called the Dragon Gate where they are miraculously transformed into dragons. The motif is often found in governmental buildings where it’s intended to encourage junior civil servants onto greater things. moss has written about it on her blog here -http://northstoke.blogspot.com/2010/05/carp.html The painting shown is from a single standing screen that would have once been placed at the entrance to a building. Such screens were placed there as it was/is thought that evil spirits can only travel in straight lines... which neatly brings us back (sort of) to the theme of this thread :-)