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I am the Norwegian who never gives up, and hopefully you can help me even more. This plate has been with my family for decades, but i know - again - nothing about it. Anyone here that can stretch out a helping hand again, please?

 

That's beautiful, Torkel! I can't identify it, but I do see figs, grapes and olives (not at all sure what the 2 yellow fruit are) so I wonder whether it's Italian.

 

When we wonder that, we call @Walter Del Pellegrino

 

Well, figs are grown in Italy, Turkey, Greece, Portugal and Spain. That narrows it down.

 

Hi,
There are lots and lots of figs growing here in the USA also.
greg

 

One thing is for sure, no figs grow in Norway!

 

We even have a fig beetle who lives in Southwest and Mexico primarily. Several fig trees next door. Hundreds of beetles in season. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

Lots of fig trees in London.

I think that's Italian. Figs, grapes, peaches.

 

Tin glazed or Majolica would be good search words.

 

Forgot to say that is a really beautiful plate.
Very Nicely done.

 

You might consider researching French Barbotine.
Don

 

GREAT find.
Wondering now if the mark on the back isn't the ceramic artist, rather than the maker.



Palissy ware - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palissy_ware
Palissy ware is a 19th-century term for ceramics produced in the style of the famous French potter Bernard Palissy (c. 1510–90), who referred to his own work in the familiar manner as rustique; in English "rusticware", or "in the rustic style".

 

Again many great ideas to investigate here. I think i can share the story where it is coming from, as we traded a lot in the 1970's with an antique dealer in UK named Mike Barnet (or Barnet) - who had stalls in Portobello but also was active around the markets. I remember visiting him close to Ipswich, but forgive me if my memory is dim here, i was just a kid at the time. Mike was a wheeler/dealer, who passed away many years ago, but if anyone know him, at least you know the "origin" in the UK. We bought most of our stuff through him - as he was married to my mothers best friend, who was Norwegian, but obviously all his advises was not always good. Not that i blame him, times are changing too, and an adise given 40 years ago may not hold up value vice - others do, agree?

 

That's today's interpretation.
Notice that Bernard was calling it that and he lived in the 1500s.

 

Palissy more usually has sea beasts and crustaceans, though.

 

I'd search "trompe l'oeil wall plate fruit" or similar.

https://www.google.ch/search?biw=11.........1....1..gws-wiz-img.FJH9rM9pZgY#imgrc=_

https://www.ebay.de/itm/TROMPE-LOEI...de-poires-et-feuillage-en-RELIEF/143109726624

 

The link below is a pdf of a book about pottery marks. It's a 1903 edition. You might try that.

http://specialtyappraisals.com/wp-c.../A_Manual_of_Marks_on_Pottery_and_Porcela.pdf