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Pottery => Oriental => Topic started by: cookiebella on June 28, 2013, 09:37:49 PM

Title: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on June 28, 2013, 09:37:49 PM

Loving the colours and design on this yunomi ?????  As usual unable to ID what appears to be chinese symbols?  thanks

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: keith on June 29, 2013, 12:38:51 AM

Any chance of a bigger picture of the mark,me old eyes aren't so good  :czy: ;D ;D

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on June 29, 2013, 01:04:42 PM

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF1138-001_zpsce7e5ad9.jpg

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: keith on June 29, 2013, 01:47:12 PM

Bit better,can see something,I may be sometime! ;D ;D

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on June 29, 2013, 07:08:00 PM

see you at Christmas   :good:

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on June 29, 2013, 07:09:12 PM

it's a difficult one to photograph unfortunately, tried lots of times in different lights, will try again

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: keith on June 30, 2013, 12:39:48 AM

Bigger the better,had a look but not much yet,hope you don't mind but I copied the picture and altered the contrast but still difficult to read what's there,it's this way up,I think ;D ;D

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on June 30, 2013, 06:17:54 PM

no probs hon, and you think I know which way is the right way up  :bolt:

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on June 30, 2013, 06:22:46 PM

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF1157_zps42acaf5b.jpg) (http://s16.photobucket.com/user/cookiepops/media/DSCF1157_zps42acaf5b.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on June 30, 2013, 06:23:07 PM

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b47/cookiepops/DSCF1156_zpsf23fcf82.jpg) (http://s16.photobucket.com/user/cookiepops/media/DSCF1156_zpsf23fcf82.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: keith on July 01, 2013, 12:40:31 AM

 ;D ;D,pictures are better,gone through a few books and websites nothing yet I'm afraid,one more book to look at,will get back to you later, ;D ;D

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on July 02, 2013, 12:24:33 PM

blimey Keith, no rush on this hon

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: Mosquito on July 03, 2013, 02:16:02 AM

This is a very tricky one. First of all from the style of the piece I'd say Japanese rather than Chinese. One element of the mark is 峰. I don't know the Japanese pronunciation (though it's possibly 'ho') or precise meaning, but in Chinese this would mean 'peak'. However, I don't know if the mark consists of several characters or just one large one. The upper strokes don't entirely make sense to me, they appear somewhat stylised. If separate characters then maybe the mark reads '穴峰'? This would translate as something like 'cave mountain'. Maybe Keith can add more or comment on the Japanese pronunciation of these kanji... ;)

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on July 03, 2013, 10:01:03 AM

just found this fab site and busy trawling through

http://www.ryu-mei.com/catalog/Utsuwa/p27.html

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: keith on July 03, 2013, 04:28:10 PM

Interesting site will have a look at that later,in regards to Stevens post I'm having trouble sorting out the characters,starting with the highlighted one in the pic' below this can be 'yama' meaning mountain,peak,heap ,pile,climax and a few others it is also common at the end of names and is pronounced 'zan' like Taizan or Meizan,famous potters.The other characters Steven mentioned are 'ana' meaning hole or cave but can also be 'ketsu' which can mean,hole,slit,gap,blank,bum! :thd: or even 'dark horse' to name a few,why did I ever start learning Japanese? not a common language in the West Midlands,not given up yet though :czy: :czy:

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: cookiebella on July 04, 2013, 03:23:15 PM

hehhehehehehe never thought of drawing it in like that, I shall try that and see if I can post a better pic.  Oh my.....trust me to give you a not so easy one sniggerrrrrrrrrrr lol

Title: Re: Another one for Keith to help with ID
Post by: keith on July 16, 2013, 03:52:13 PM

Stumped! checked my books,even had a look in my kanji dictionary and online,sorry :boohoo: :boohoo:, ;D ;D,you could email the Japanese embassy :o ;D ;D