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Ming Dynasty Hong Wu Era Brush Pot

by Diane
(California)

Hello, I have a Ming Dynasty Hong Wu Era Brush Pot that I would like to get an appraisal for. Could you please tell me everything you know about this pot including history and the value? I am looking to sell this family heirloom. I would really appreciate all the information you can provide. My name is Diane Tran. Thank you very very much.

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Will post photos soon
by: Diane

I will post photos of it soon. Along with photos of french wine glasses from when the french colonized. They were buried together. When my dad tried to retrieve the wine glasses one broke. So we only have 11 of those.
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by: peter

Can you upload closeup (partial) pictures of the blue decoration and foot rim, as well as of the top rim? The pictures should be taken in natural lighting, perhaps near a window, to allow for natural colors.
What was said regarding the mark holds in any case. The crackling looks also pretty much like the crackling on 20th century items, it is artificial. But the colors do matter.
I can try to confirm the earlier findings, but pictures must show minute details.

Also, is it possible that your father mixes this up with something else, obtained later?
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by: Diane

My father told me that the brush pot was handed to him from his grand father. It was obtained by his great grandfather (who is my great great grand father). I was told that the pot was buried when the French colonized Vietnam, and then retrieved from under ground after my family fled the communist. Could it really be a fake? My father doesn't understand how it could be fake if he remembers having it so long ago.
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by: peter

Hello,
First of all, the mark itself is spurious. Their are virtually no Hongwu marks known at all. Those few that exist are apocryphal marks found on items from a later era.

Your brush pot shows regular crackles that obviously were created artificially. This, in addition to the blue tone of the decoration, indicating chemical pigments, plus a very unlikely type of foot rim, indicate that this item is of the 20th century, rather from the last few decades than earlier. This does not seem to be an antique, I'm afraid.

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