Could somebody please translate these for me?

[Matthew S]

So long story short, I work with an older gentleman who does not have a computer. He does, however have three vases that he's curious about, and has asked me to try and find a translation for him online.

If I've done this right there should be four images in this album. The first two images are the ones we're most curious about. They seem to say the same thing, but to make it easy in case one is hard to read I've included both. The third image is of the two vases, which are similar except the one on the right seems to be more detailed.

The last image is not as important, and we're not even sure it's Chinese. Any help with that one would be appreciated though, whether it's a translation or just being able to tell us the language it's in.

Thanks in advance!

http://imgur.com/a/Amva8

[Kamille]

First two: 大清乾隆

Which means "Emperor Qian Long of the Great Qing Empire"

 

Last one: 山弘陶苑

The place where the potteries were produced.

I found somenone on google who had a pottery with the same seal and talks about it here: http://litaxulingkelley.blogspot.com/2014/09/yamahiro-pottery-heike-monogatari.html

Though I don't quite get their point :-/

[Lu]

Is it strange for Qing dynasty pottery to be produced in Japan? Or did the faker get their seals mixed up?

[Matthew S]

Thanks for the help Kamille! Would the inscription on the first two be describing the scene on the vases then? My friend is also really curious why one of the vases is more detailed than the other. Is it safe to say they were mass-produced recently by hand, and the right one is simply from a better artist?

And Lu, I can't seem to tell how you're able to determine they were made in Japan. Could you explain your comment to me?

Also, I apologize, I now realize the picture of the third vase was upside down. Oops.

[Matthew S]

As a side-note do you think they'd be worth anything? As I said I'm doing this for an older gentleman, and he's trying to decide whether he should leave them to his kids.
Also, he gave me a few more photos today, which I've uploaded to the original album in case anybody is curious as to what they look like.

Here's the link again.
 

http://imgur.com/a/Amva8

[Lu]

The seal on the last vase says 'Yamahiro Toen', or 'Yamahiro pottery studio' (also see the link in Kamille's post). That's a Japanese name (of a place or person, that I don't know), referring to which studio made the vase, while the seals on the first two pots state that the pots were produced during the reign of emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty (which was Chinese). Although now I realise that the Qianlong seal and the Yamahiro seal are on different pots, so there's actually no issue and I was just confused.

 

If they are really from the Qianlong period and are in good shape (no chips or cracks) they might be worth something, but there is a lot of fake old porcelain in China. If the gentleman has reason to believe they might be real, he should get them appraised by an expert. It's not really possible to tell over the internet, I think.

[Matthew S]

Awesome, thanks for the help again.