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Kind regards Lester Hello Michaela, What a fascinating blog, I am so plased I came acros it, I have daily contact with 20th century Chinese ceramics and have not had such a useful recourse in the past.

The potters of this period found new clients among the scholar classes as well as making fine pieces for export.

Provenance : Robert McPherson Antiques.

In the translations of several chinese language books on Chinese ceramics hallmarks such as Ju Ren Tang Zhi or Da De Tang Zhi are variously translated as Made in Ju Ren Tang when the chinese pinyin is usually translated into English or Ju Ren Tang Shop, Da De Tang Shop.

The Base with a Jiajing Six Character mark and of the Period.

When were reign marks first used? Four-character reign marks simply omit the first two characters recording the name of the dynasty.

This book was created after thorough study of the Chinese ceramics and the marks.

A Large Area of the Body Has Fired to a Black Tone.

There is a Republic artist called Wan Songmao, but with a very different style to this piece — could be from the same studio though.

To complicate matters a little, for hundreds of years Chinese artisans copied reign marks from earlier dynasties out of a respect and reverence for these earlier periods.

Stamp depicts central oval shape with words in side.