Is the porcelain piece separate from the metal base ?? If so can you possibly take a pic of the bottom ?? Usually the foot of any pottery item is left unglazed and looking at that can help with age !! No matter how clean a house is the unglazed portion will collect dust and other airborne things and will age over the years !!
First thought when I looked at this piece was a Staffordshire pottery or on a lesser note,,French !! Now France is not far from England and many items from English potteries can turn up in France and vice verse !! That said the English and French potteries would not use a mark that was illegible as this one !! They would want people to know who made it !!
This looks more like a powder jar than a jewelry casket !! From a dresser set !!
Do you know when she got the piece ?? Thats the problem with many items like this !! It looks old therefore it is old !! But thats not always correct !! If you would post a pic of the top and bottom it would help !!
Friedrich is an expert on porcelain and even though his area is Germany and the surrounding areas he also has experience in many other marks !! I have seen a similar mark that also could not be found !! The Chinese have been exporting to the U.S England and Europe since the 1800`s !! Now the entire purpose of a company that produces these things is to make money,, in order to do that they use name recognition !! Thats why we can find most all companies that produced products back to the 1700`s !! The Chinese just wanted something that looked similar to a western mark because they sold well !! And most meant nothing !!
It would be wrong to assume that all Chinese porcelain is cheap !! But they did not have the restrictions/regulations on paints/glazes that other countries did !! That would only be a concern if the item was for food !!
Even if you and your husband have been together 40 years,, if you stop and think about it,, thats only 1970 or 80 !! Still very modern era !! I remember those days !! 😀
I have no idea where she got the piece. She passed away 5 years ago and I have all her porcelains. My mother-in-law was a Holocaust survivor. Her mother settled in France after WWII, and I would assume that she may have gotten the piece from her mother, when her mother moved to California after the mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I don’t mean to suggest that the piece is an antique, but to be sure it’s definitely older than the 2000s, simply because it’s been around at my mother-in-law’s for so long. I am very aware that the Chinese are quite creative when it comes to flooding the market with reproductions of all sorts. My mother-in-law and my mother died within a few years of each other so imagine all the junk we have. If this is junk, I just want to donate it to Goodwill. It is a pretty piece though. I will take a picture and post it. Thanks for your response. I am able to identify quite a few porcelain stamps, but certainly I am no expert. Because this mark is so hard to find, I will probably bet that it is a Chinese import of sorts.
Shown mark was applied by a Chinese producer of mass-produced decowares; your mark was commonly used around 2005/07 if I remember correctly.
Please be advised to NOT use such items to store foodsfuffs (cookies, candy) as the glazes and metal parts contain high levels of lead, cadmium and mercury. Resellers in the US simply removed the warning stickers to make their made-up stories of age and origin more believable.
Maybe the Chinese were using that mark a lot longer than that because that jewelry casket was in my mother-in-law’s house for the longest time. I actually can’t even remember how long. She passed away a few years ago at the age of 91, and I’ve been with my husband for 40 years. The casket is a beautiful porcelain piece. There’s no way this could be cheap Chinese porcelain. My mother-in-law collected Herend, and I inherited all of her pieces. She also collected other miscellaneous porcelain pieces, mostly European. I would be happy to post a picture if you’d like. I do appreciate your response. Thank you.
The porcelain and the brass are separate pieces. It could be from a dresser set, but it’s quite large. I finally measured it. The feet are 7″ apart, the length of the porcelain is 8″, 7″ from the knob on the lid to the bottom of the porcelain and it’s 6″ in depth. Because I live in earthquake country, the whole thing is held down with museum wax. It is definitely hand-painted. It is probably has a weight of 1.5 lbs. It definitely does not look cheaply made. I will try to take better pictures of it this weekend once I scrape all the museum wax off of it.