Japanese porcelain maker s marks signatures.
Japanese ceramic makers marks.
Ikai yūichi s works are signed or stamped around the footring with the kanji character for yuichi his given name.
However in 1921 the us congress requested that japanese customs authorities change the name to japan.
Hidden within the kanji the characters on the bottom of the piece you will typically find the production region a specific kiln location a potter s name and sometimes a separate decorator s identity but at times only generic terms were recorded and tracking down.
Almost all japanese pottery items bear an incision or mark made by the craftsman although some makers did not mark the item so that the pottery itself was their signature.
A similar mark can be found on a sight called cathy s made in occupied japan page under yamaka.
Marks may also be found on the side or the lip of the piece.
The mark is a bit blurry but under the bird picture in japanese it says yamaka shoten illegible ki which is yamaka merchant shop.
The old japanese ceramic industry was in many ways smaller in scale compared to the chinese.
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In the meiji period this brand name was used by several arita porcelain makers such as fukagawa porcelain as well as other products of the.
The case of nippon or japanese porcelain marks is a bit more peculiar.
Turn the pottery piece over to view the maker s mark.
List of japanese porcelain maker s marks and signatures on antique modern japanese porcelain.
Unless you re familiar with the japanese language identifying japanese pottery and porcelain marks can be a daunting task.
During world war ii most ceramics factories for exports ceased except noritake see japanese ceramics of the last 100 years by irene stitt pg 167.
Non marked pieces are called non kamajirushi.
The word nippon is the official name of the country of japan and japanese makers and trading companies initially marked their wares with the name nippon.
Identify the maker of your japanese ceramics in alphabetical order.
From 1921 1941 wares from japan exported to the united states had to be marked japan or made in japan.
Japanese porcelain marks.
Minton mark c1850 amherst japan paragon china paris porcelain mark bourdoir bloch rosenthal porcelain c1930 royal bonn lyonais c1897 royal bonn sarreguemines mark france wien keramos austrian c1930 mayer sherratt c1906 to 1920 wade pottery mark c1957 onwards gerbing stephan g st c1861 to 1900 louis majorelle makers mark.
Your mark is similar but i believe it is a mark made only for the domestic japanese market.
