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Pewter enamel bottle - help with the mark

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« on: April 08, 2016, 05:04:28 pm »

From my experience with other red glazed imitation cinnabar Snuff Bottles, it isn't much thicker than the clear glaze they were using on other molded bottles in early days of molded porcelain snuff bottles circa 1780-1820.  If you look at the small damaged area I circled on the back of one of the foo lions of Marcos' SB, you can see that the glaze is very thick. I think that it would probably obscure much of the fine detail.

The side view really shows how thinness of this glaze. If you shrink that down to actual size with your imagination and look at the tiny space between the green arrows you can imagine how thin the glaze must be.  You have two thin layers of red glaze over a the molded porcelain.  I think the reason they didn't make very many of the imitation bronze was due to the heavy glaze obscuring most of the details.

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