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Pewter Teapot
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:21 am
by Britannia958
Can anyone identify the mark on this teapot please?
teapot mark
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:47 am
by spammenot
looks like it reads in two vertical columns, starting on the right: "Shi Dabin zhi", where Shi is the maker's surname, Dabin the given name, and zhi means manufactured by
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:23 pm
by byron mac donald
Hello Spammenot-
This is wonderful to have someone that can finally answer these, this is just great.
Regards: Byron
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:58 am
by Britannia958
Yes Spammenot, thanks very much for the info. I recognised the 'Da' symbol from Chinese porcelain, but that just made me think that it might be badly-done pseudo marks.
Thanks again for cracking the Dabin zhi code.
Jules.