I think your query will only be solved with a dealer or specialist looking at it in the flesh. Interesting though!
Ack, don't smash the plate. There are some distinct folk art decoration on it and so I'm not sure of the age. I do think second half 20th c, but...
Well, the only Japanese character I recognize is the one for nine which is usually on kutani pieces, LOL. But it appears it is an Arita production.
Robert Held -- just up the Island from me. He did some great stuff. I don't have any...:sorry:
This may relate: https://arita-keizan.jp/en/
Google lens is coming up with Arita ware items with similar marks. The circle mark is a mons or crest mark. Looks fairly modern. Sorry, that's...
Well, last resort may be the Asian Arts forum (your query may or may not be answered) or if you are on Facebook there are likely several Japanese...
I bought some strong peroxide from Amazon and I was very pleased with the results. Of you want to see what mine looked like there will be a...
The Minton plate is a shallow bowl. I've always liked that burnt orange colour
Welcome to Antiquers. My feeling is that it is a middle third of the 20th c production. I can see it in a "Hollywood Regency" kind of styled...
Oh wow! Blast from the past. As kids we always sang, "Nestle's makes the very best...chooooock-laaattte!"
You looked at the mark images under 20th c on gotheborg, right? Rather a distinctive mark. Google lens is no help. Dang.
Directly opposite the mark on the base looks like something was written in red. Anything identifiable?
Google lens says Kalk Eisenberg, but I dunno. Here is Chris' info: https://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/germany/thuringia/eisenberg-02/ Looking...
Thank you for telling the story which had sunk to depths that my brain doesn't look at any more, LOL!
Good score, although personally I do not see the perennial appeal of this pattern. Sells well still.
So, if you can see light clearly through those little bits in the white, then it's rice grain or rice pattern porcelain.
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1834168382/antique-japanese-meiji-blue-and-white Google lens brought up this etsy piece with very similar mark.
Seems to me that there is a story about the snake and Virgin Mary, but my brain says "no more info."
Huh. Hadn't seen them. They look like a cross between studio pottery and something mass made to look like studio pottery. But may be a case...
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