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Early Porcelain on Copper plate

by Alison
(Bedfordshire, UK)

Hello
I enjoy picking up chinese porcelain items at auction and researching them. I brought one recently and have drawn a blank. It is a small dish/plate (very damaged!). It appears to be made of copper and covered in porcelain. It is hand painted and has a symbol on the base which looks like a blue 'fleur de lis' type mark. I have tried researching the mark on the base and cannot find anything about it. Are you able to give me any information on my plate?
Many thanks, Alison

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by: Alison

Hi Peter
Thanks for your help. Just to know it is enamel on copper and not porcelain has helped me to research further.
Many thanks, Alison
enamel on copper
by: peter

I'm afraid I cannot help much with this. This is not porcelain. To be porcelain the body must be porcelain/kaolin. There is a craft using enamel on porcelain, but this is enamel on copper.

I cannot judge age. The only I can say is that the painted decoration looks as if it were from the Qing dynasty.

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