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| | Allen's Antiques, Reign Marks |
 | | By the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912AD, the reign marks of both the earlier Ming and Qing dynasties were being applied, and to confuse matters even more, the marks of the reigning Emperor were often applied on porcelain of the period, as well. |
 | | Reign marks in zhuanshu (seal) script in the Ming dynasty, and in fact in or before the Kangxi reign (1662 to 1722AD), are likely to be fake. |
 | | The reign marks of the Qing dynasty Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Daoguang, perhaps with the rarest of exceptions, if not of their period, were not copied before the reign of Tongzhi (1861 to 1875AD). |
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