unknown decrative tea plate

any ideas?( sorry spelling mistake in the title decorative )

 

The decorater used the black object to cover the name of the manufacturer. Looks like it could be Nippon except for the writing.
Patd

 

Hi,
They did a nice job on the decorating. I love that plate.
greg

 

Pretty sure that's a Czech 'Epiag' mark under the overstamp...

~Cheryl

 

Holy cow! I have a low "bowl" with the same decoration - the guy on the camel, the tent, the fire next to the tent, the mountains and the trees. Only mark on the bottom is the "hand painted" in green. But it also has a metal rim marked EPNS A& Co B. leading me to think it was decorated in England. I'm using it as a cachepot.

The dark color on the rim of the plate - a very dark cobalt blue? Unfortunately the gold embellishment that yours has is only very faint on mine. Somebody must have cleaned the heck out of it.

Still too dark here for me to take pictures.

 

Ah, but we imported Stuff and then embellished it. That whole camel and palm thing was big in the 20s. Howard Carter and all that.

 

Huh. At first glance, I thought Japanese. They did so much of their stuff, but the Czechs supplied a lot of blanks, so it makes sense. Also, I have never seen a Japanese mark blacked out. Not that that means anything!

 

yeah i don't think they are japanese

also have these which are tea plate sized the same as the one i posted above i don't know much about them about seems to be plenty online about the earlier samurai stuff , think they are later than the 1930's?

those patterns around the edges are raised looks really nice

 

well spotted cheryl and thanks for confirming "i need help" so just a czech plate decorated in the uk same as bakersgma thinks her bowl was decorated in the uk

 

Sometimes the handpainted mark just refers to the trim, and the center is a transfer.

 

these samurai are more like a dish or little bowl rather than a tea plate £ coin next to one for scale

maybe i should just make a seperate thread for them?



what this thread is originally about is also deeper than it looks in the picture but not as deep as the japanese ones