Featured Ceramic/pottery candlesticks - asian motif - no marks - help

I think they're English. Late 19th into early 20th Japonaiserie. I'm trying to think of factories, Beardmore maybe. Cranes and chrysanthemums.

 

My first inclination is Nippon.
Am I seeing correctly? The hole goes all the way through the top to the bottom?

 

That's one reason I think here, not Japan.

 

Wonder if they are later - more like 1920s and possible lamp bases for boudoir lamps.
Someone just used them for candlesticks.

 

Are the little white dots raised?

 

In thinking Japanese with that red, yellow and worn gilding.

 

Me neither.....but they're nice.....sweet colors too !!!!

 

Not sure the English did that kind of enamel dot texture.

I still think Japanese.

 

Book, can we see a better picture of the 'crane'?

 

If an item is being imported into the US, then it is supposed to be marked with country of origin. If an item is staying in the country where it is manufactured, marking would be according to that country's laws.


If these are earlier than 1891, they wouldn't have had to have been marked, as the McKinley Act didn't start until then.

 

You say the customer's wife was French. You would have to see what the French requirements for import are or were if she brought them from France.