Chinese Plate

purplestar1986

Just wondering if anyone can help me out on this. My nanny has a Chinese looking plate she got from my aunt (she found it in the house she just moved into), it has a symbol on the back of it, was wondering if anyone could point us in the direction of figuring out the symbol. Sorry about the quality of the pictures, my mam took them on her phone.

Wild_Dogger

Hi Purplestar ,
Thats a Japanese plate , they made them differently to the Chinese .
Japanese kilns needed a stilt to support the centre of the ceramic , and you can see in image 1 and 2 a 'spur mark' where the stilt snapped as the workers remove the plate from the kiln .
Decoration is Japanese on the front
19th Cent I'd say .

2 totally different markets for Chinese and Japanese ceramics , and prob not going to get you a whole lot but still, its definately worth holding on to !

purplestar1986

Thanks for your reply Wild Dogger!

Can I ask why you think it would be 19th century? I don't think she wants to sell it, just to find out about it. Thanks for the info, it was nice of you to reply.

Wild_Dogger

Hi Purplestar ,
The plate is leaning to a style of decoration seen on Kakiemon wares , using the same colours but in a different manner .

Japanese Kakiemon produced in late 17th century , but was usually sensitive to spacing of white body and the applied decoration .
I'd guess that your one is much more recent .
I could well be wrong , and may be worth getting a second opinion !

I'd guess your one is late 19th or early 20th C.
The marks are very 'generic' , and only a japanese man )or woman) can tell yuo what that means ..... possibly something like 'happineess' sadness , winter , summer or even good luck .
Kanji charachters !

Get an expert to check it out ! I'm just learning tbh
Let us know what happens !
W-d