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Teeny Tiny Calligraphy on Ivory? Bottle

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« on: July 26, 2016, 10:44:35 am »

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Re.naming: The superb craftsmanship of YT's incised glass bottle by Zhou Honglai is properly referred to as 'Micro Engraving'.
The 'chicken scratching' on your ivory bottle properly deserves the description ' teeny tiny calligraphy'... Grin Roll Eyes
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Hahaha Joey

Tom, thanks so much for the photos and information. Very helpful!! It seems there were a lot of ivory bottles for the tourist trade around the turn of the 20th century. One of my bottles from the BBB is a Japanese made Emperor and Empress polychrome ivory also from that time frame. And so I'm guessing that anytime I run into an ivory that i should first suspect this.


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