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by: Snap

Your pretty cup and stand, possibly for tea or for wine, is quite recently made, possibly in Japan. If you carefully examine the seal-mark, you will see that the color is dark at upper left and fades rather evenly toward lower right, so it is either stamped or transfer-printed rather than drawn by hand. It is not in 'archaic' characters, but in zhuanshu seal-characters, reading from upper right to lower left Da Qing Qian Long nian zhi (great Qing Qianlong reign made). It was also rather hastily put off-center, and whoever designed this particular one did not quite get the 'Qing' as usually written in seal characters.

The Qianlong reign was 1736-1795, but this is one of the most popular marks put on porcelains made from the last part 19th century to the present. It is decorative, meant to suggest something about quality.

Perhaps Peter would have a better idea about where made.
coral red tea bowl.
by: peter

This is a tea bowl with its lid missing. These bowls usually have a lid which is used to to shove the tea leaves to the side when drinking.

Usually, coral red items with gilt decorations are attributed to the late Qing dynasty and/or the early republic. This bowl is either only decades old, or it is in a rarely seen superb condition. The mark is a stamped Qianlong reign mark that is apocryphal, like many marks of this type and period.
Sometimes there is a cyclic calendar date at the end of the text decoration. If you want us to check, please upload a closeup showing the last three lines of the text (the three vertical lines farthest left). With the bottom mark it is unlikely to have such a date, though. We could try...

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