Japanese Earthenware Satsuma Charger-Signed...Age...ID Help?/

Any help appreciated....Character ID...Age??

 

No doubt you know already that the 2nd pic of the marks is upside down. The column on the right are the marks for Dai Nippon - Great Japan.

The Satsuma page on the Gotheborg site, #490 a good 3/4ths of the way down the page or the 19th pic up from the bottom (under the section "Recent Additions"), has markings like yours except the characters are in a single column starting with the characters in the right column followed by the characters in the left column. The description/info on these markings says:

"490. Dai Nippon Koda tsukuru, or Dai Nippon Mukoda tsukuru. The characters to the right are unread. Satsuma pottery of the Kyoto School. Popular export ware. Late Edo/Early Meiji period 1868-1912 c. 1865."

http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/satsuma.shtml

--- Susan

 

Susan,

You nailed it again!!!....Thank you so much!!

Steve

 

You're welcome!

 

Gotheborg 490 gives the Japanese name readings for the characters 向田, not the characters 西田 that appear in your mark.

The characters 西田 are usually read Nishida in Japanese, though there are a few other possible readings.

http://www.arcimboldo.cz/en/auction.../2453/a-large-satsuma-nishida-stoneware-vase/

Gotheborg 1367

http://www.asianart.com/phpforum/index.php?method=detailAll&Id=54726#54733

 

Thank you khl, for the correction!!! It amazes me how good you are at interperting these intricate Oriental marks, characters. How lucky we are to have you.

--- Susan