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This dish exhibits enough pattern overlaps and other clues to identify it as an example of Japanese blue & white transfer (Inbande) ware, a technique the Japanese acquired from their trading partners the Dutch, who I believe acquired it nefariously from England, where the copper-plate process was developed toward the end of the 18th century. Despite subsequently experimenting with it around the area of Kawana (川名) and elsewhere in the late Edo period, this process was not employed on a commercial scale until about 1887 in the Hizen (later Arita) area. Accordingly, John's plate dates closer to the late Meiji-Taisho period, circa 1900-1925.
Link :Kawana Ware
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