Featured Kingfisher ID help

Hello all,
I posted this some time ago and can't find the original post. Does anyone have any guesses for the maker?

Thank you Steve

 

its got a bit of a martin brothers look to it (but obviously not)

looks like the main word is Parade ?

 

wasn't resolved by the looks

Help with ID ceramic bird mark | Antiques Board

 

Very unique.

 

Yes it was never identified

 

Just adding to images of mark. Looks like RARAD to me, but gets nowhere in search:



I keep seeing what's going on in the upper part as a volcano erupting, turning my thoughts to Italy.

Like this more impressionistic one than other ceramic kingfishers I'm finding.

 

"I keep seeing what's going on in the upper part as a volcano erupting, turning my thoughts to Italy."

I'm seeing an animal with horns (on the right) with his head down behind a tree? Also see RARAD or RARAO or RAKAD or RAKAO but nothing came up in search. Using image search of the mark, it is stating PARIAN but I'm not seeing that at all

 

It doesn't look at all like 'PARIAN' to me either. There are places where it is difficult to know whether a line is part of the mark or just a stray irregularity. Think I see your animal, but does not look deliberate to me, more like wrinkles.

 

I keep seeing Parad[e]. Paradise maybe?

 

Looking again, I am not now sure that either letter I've been seeing as R actually is.

 

This mark is a little clearer, but....
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-austria-majolica-figurine-4381444015

 

From above link

 

That one does look like PARADE.

 

You hippy dippied faster than I could.

 

It's interesting that both the kingfisher and the kangaroo are common in Australia. I know the seller in the Worthpoint link wrote Austria... but I wonder if the maker could be Australian.

Still if that's a volcano on the top of the mark, that doesn't conjure images of Australia. Apparently there are no active volcanoes in Australia proper.

So, some other country, probably. The word does look like it could be PARADE. The first letter seems more like an R in the Worthpoint link. Hard to tell, though.

 

not much help but another piece with same mark:

Antique majolica elephant and baboon figurine | #169342450

...not sure but as close as I can make out it says RARADE or RABAJE , hard to tell... also underneath that J.P.I.C. I think.....

J.P.I.C. would indicate Japan

 

I was wondering the same. It does look a bit like a baby kookaburra nodding off. The kookaburra is the Australian sibling of the kingfisher, only much bigger.

 

Thank you! Funny, I was thinking the same thing, but then did a search and found out that Australia also has several other species of kingfisher. That's why I wrote "kingfisher" -- but it could be Kookaburra, specifically.
https://www.australiaswonderfulbirds.com.au/kingfishers