Message #10161

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Giovanni,
   First of all, THANK YOU for posting stuff. If I could figure out how it works, I would too (Pace, Peter, I'm a Jewish Luddite!).

   In my opinion, as one who, like Tom, bought a modern resin snuff bottle (in the early 1970s), imitating cinnabar lacquer;  and has had genuine cinnabar lacquers since the early 1980s (at the time, good 19th C. examples); then, in the later 1980s and early 1990s, superb 18th C. Imperial Palace Workshops examples (one I still have, in my Irish collections), yours is a modern, very good quality imitation.

   Unlike Charll & George, if I've read this thread correctly (I apologise if I've not), I don't believe these, good quality or not, were made as anything but fakes to fool collectors.

  Incidentally, cinnabar is the material used to colour the lacquer red. So if it is red lacquer, it is called 'cinnabar' lacquer; green lacquer is called 'teadust green' lacquer; black, black lacquer; etc.

  Great thread! Great info from Tom, Steven, James, etc.
Joey