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Full of misinformation. Who is this guy? Absolutely ridiculous attribution to some made in Japan figurines (piano babies). He says they are made by Camille Naudot. Preposterous! Naudot was dead before those 1940-50's piano babies were made. These exact ones with the embossed NC mark, also are found with the original "Andra of Sadek" paper label, which also says made in Japan. They are not French, and NOT NAUDOT! Naudot had a printed mark usually found in blue. (Never embossed!)..tall skinny N,elongated C. Not the Japan import mark that is found on figurines and ceramics from Japan after world war II. These companies from Japan all have the embossed NC mark: Andrea, Arnart, Ucago, Lefton, and about several others. His misidentification is causing people to make false claims about their inexpensive made in Japan items. Camille Naudot's work is in museums. He did not make figurines! His style is soft-paste, like Sevres. The quality of his work is far superior than all of those millions of marked NC made in Japan ceramics/porcelain items. Terrible, awful book, that should be completely discounted as a reference book.Read full review
If you found this review helpful, please click on the link and give it your vote. Thank you. Chad Lage's "Pictorial Guide To Pottery & Porcelain Marks" is a large hardcover reference book. It is an alphabetical listing of pottery and porcelain makers' marks with color photos of the marks on actual pieces and additional full photos of actual examples. There are no overviews of makers and no essays on pottery or porcelain. Therefore, this book is not a complete reference. But it is a good starting point if you are trying to identify the maker of a piece that bears an unfamiliar name or initials. It is only really effective, however, if the maker's mark is includes the name or initials of the maker. If the mark is only a symbol, you will have a problem looking it up in this book. You can browse the guide and try to make a mental note of the maker's marks that are symbols and then hope you will recognize them when you are out shopping for collectible pottery and porcelain. If you found a piece of Rookwood, for instance, it would be impossible for you to identify it with this book. Even though it has some drawbacks, I still feel the book is useful. It also includes the approximate dates the marks were used. There is a full index in the back. The entire book weighs in at a hefty 410 pages.Read full review
This book is a great quick reference to pottery marks. It shows several exapmles of marks by the same company and gives a date range to help you identify your pieces. The book is hardcover and in COLOR! It being in color helps out so much. It has a great little English Dating guide in the back that makes it so easy to identify English items on the fly. It would have been nice if the book had told a tad about the maker's histories or timelines. that would be helpful. But, that is not what this book is about.
Easy to use guide to china marks
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Pretty pictures of pottery and china pictures with marks. However, the book contains many significant dating errors, perhaps carried over from errors in the author's sources. There are also errors in identifying marks as to manufacturer. Examples of these errors can be found in the entries on Syracuse China, D.E. McNicol, T.E. McNicol, and Buffalo China. It should not and cannot be relied on as to dates and it's reliability is questionable as to identification of manufacurer.
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