Marks on Chinese vase

[lonny tao]

Not a vase of myself but from someone else.

On the bottom are a few characters that looks Chinese.

It is to bad not the best photo.

I do not know how to read this characters, maybe the photo is up side down.

Lonny

[DespikableMi]

Top-Left: An upside-down 造

Top-Right: Reversed and badly written 意

Bottom-Left: Looks like an upside-down and reversed 浩 or 诰

Bottom-Right: Reversed and badly written 利 with wrong stroke order

The four characters together are just gibberish.

[lonny tao]

Thanks for the information.

I was also thinking it must be someting like this.

But why are they writing it like this, I do not know.

Strange.

The characters, your absolutely right, It looks like nothing, gibberish.

Lonny

[atjc2002]

I already flip horizontal with the picture:

red square: 意

blue square: 利

green square: 造→ This one is special, because it is written with flip-horizontal-way.

yellow square: 造→ This one is "造", too. I recognize it by the stroke, the part "辶".

Normally, notes at china works would be written like "yy年制", "pp制造", or blessing idiom like "富貴如意" etc. (yy=Chinese year, pp=a kiln，"制" and "制造" mean " to make " )

However, this china vase is written two "造", I don't known why the maker write the note in this way.

Maybe it is just the style how the make sign on his art piece.

[lonny tao]

Your right, the green and the yellow are the same character.

But, do you know the meaning of this four characters?

Lonny

[atjc2002]

Well..., I don' t know chinaware art too much, maybe these four words could regard as two vocabularies,"造意" and "造利" .

造意：using mind to create an idea

造利：strive to create welfare

They are the meanings that I can think about right now.