Message #12634

[rpfstoneman]

All,

Another note about the bottles posted here is that the three bottles (the middle bottles when upper pictures are view together, for it was taken as left and right photo of the same group) with no shell decorations are claimed to be Japanese.  Instead of gold and silver wire (which is more like a metal tape instead of wire) and shell work, these three are wire and foil designs.  The foil material appears similar if not the same as that used in Japanese foil cloisonne.  The others with the shell work could be Chinese or Japanese, and the country of origin on these depends upon who your talking too.   I would like to think the whole group is Japanese, but pretty sure more than a few are Chinese.  Still going though old records and catalogs in an effort to confirm the county of origin on each of these bottles.

Charll