Does anybody know what that symbol is, and does it have any value?
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The stamp on the back of your porcelain says Liling in Chinese. There is also the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing.
The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing is a pagoda built during the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century. The tower was designed by the Chinese Emperor Yong Le. It gets its name because it was built with porcelain bricks. en.wikipedia.org/
Presumably your cup and saucer set was made by Yong Sheng Porcelain Company in Liling City in the Hunan Province.
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I found cups and saucers with slightly similar patterns:
Colorful 1970s Lotus Flower Yong Sheng Porcelain Cup & Saucer Gold Rim with the price $18 www.ebay.com/
Nanjing Pagoda China Demitasse Cup and Saucer, Lotus Blossom MM113X $14.95 www.ebay.com/
Replacements.com calls your pattern:
FCC58
by Fine China of China
Item#: 22561 Pattern Code: FCCFCC58
Description: Pink Flowers, Brown & Gray Scrolls
Pattern: FCC58 by Fine China of China
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It is out of stock in their warehouse so you could see if they would be willing to buy it. They pay 1/8 (lately) sometimes up to 1/4 of retail.
The rub is you have to pay the postage to ship to them, which eats into the profits.
I have sold (or tried to sell) these type of cups/saucers in the past and they are a hard sell because they are so fragile and people just don't use them any more.
The one way I did sell a few is I filled them with potpourri and a pretty net and sold them as a display piece. Didn't get much for them....$5-10 each depending on where I sold them. I once tried to make candles out of these, but they are so fragile that the heat often shatters them. A lady selling next to me at the flea a few years ago was doing really well with pretty little cups because she had succulents (small cacti) in them. She was getting up to $10 each. Her display was amaazing--she used a lot of otherwise unsellable dishes as pretty pots for her cacti!!
You would have to have it translated. My guess is that, while pretty, it does not have much monetary value.
Not all sellers identified china porcelain with the same backstamp. Sellers mostly write Vintage China Porcelain Nanjing Pagoda Mark. Therefore, to compare prices for such porcelain, write Vintage China Porcelain Nanjing Pagoda Mark.
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