Dating noritake marks

Japanese Porcelain Marks

The old Japanese ceramic industry was in many ways smaller in scale compared to the Chinese. Marks was also applied for different reasons that on the Chinese porcelain. Personal signatures by the artists involved are quite common. We also find a different attitude towards what marks that are put on the Japanese porcelain and in particular the export porcelain from the 19th century and onwards. The entire range of Imperial reign marks so common on Chinese porcelain, genuine or not, is mostly lacking. The marks are more commercially oriented, more numerous and can vary even within a set of pieces. They can indicate the name of the factory, the potter, the decorator, the pattern, the customer, the exporter, the importer or both or a part of them or maybe just say "Made in Japan", "Japan", "Nippon", "Happiness" or "Good luck" in any number of ways. Increasing the confusion are the hundreds of porcelain decorating firms active in the early to mid 20th century simultaneously putting many different marks on the same wares seemingly at random but probably for some reason. To take just one example, the Noritake company which has been active for about one hundred years only, are thought to have used over different marks. To immediately gain a better understanding on the many names that occurs in Japanese pottery and porcelain, I believe this map, that indicates the most common kiln areas blue names and cities names in red , will be helpful.

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They initially produced a full range of china marked with the Nippon mark and also sold china in-the-white, ie; blanks for decorating by outside agencies and decorators, thus the quality of the earlier finished product can vary. They registered their first Noritake back stamp around and registered their first Noritake mark in the USA around Scroll through as we present a few examples of antique china by Noritake, showing the range of decoration used, the forms and the associated Noritake China marks on the piece.

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Hi, I found this blogsite while trying to identify the mark of a Japanese-styled porcelain set. I could not get any results in google or yahoo. Could I email it to you for assistance? I am not sure I can help but you may send pictures to Marmiet23 gmail. Am trying to identify a green mark that has a capital T within a green circle surrounded by a wreath with Hand Painted above and Nippon below. Go to www.

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Captivating & Valuable Vintage Noritake China

There is not much about Kanedai China to be found in English on line, although there are many sites selling replacements, sets or pieces of various patterns. The common patterns seen on ebay, etc. I have seen one made in Occupied Japan, so that would have placed the manufacture in the late 's or so.

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