Production, pattern and mold numbers most likely. A type of decoration known as Dresden lace.
Tab and Fresca -- blast from the past for me. Didn't like Tab, but drank Fresca. But my real fave as a kid were Coke floats.
I think your suspicions may be correct.
Quite, but common usage not just in the US calls them geisha. ;) Errors of this sort are not all that rare and many things are misnomers....
Welcome to Antiquers! Are you a collector of Asian pottery and porcelain? The foot rim of this base doesn't make me think Japanese right off the...
Yes, I think Chinese. Missing a lid and may have been handles that broke off. A censer of some sort perhaps?
Transfer outline and then painted in.
Japanese voter here, too. I heart this one!
I like the very first one! Looks like a 60s design.
Cool! She was talented!
That is a good piece. Shame about the damage, but turn that part to the wall.;)
Well it's a transfer pattern so we can rule out Coalport, but a Staffordshire factory for sure.
Blushing more. But I always wait for you to chime in, LOL!
Oops! I should've written "peruse!" :hilarious:
English, latter half of 19th c, but I do not know the maker.
I blush. Just glad my little tidbits are helpful now and then. There are other members here that I admire very much and think they are like...
Signatures like that are mostly seen on hobbyist items, but interesting to learn about CAC; I hadn't heard of it before. Talented whether...
Troll through 20th c Japanese marks on gotheborg.com and it may be there. However, I would place them earlier, 1920s/30s although not 100% certain.
Ah, more nostalgia from my childhood! Here I come to save the d-a-a-a-y!
Studio pottery. Nice of ML to date and put the place name on it. Question is, did ML throw the pot and the design or just the design? Very...
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