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Clear green mark appears on each of a three plate set. Each plate is finely painted with birds, flowers and a butterfly. Any help identifying the mark would be greatly appreciated.

you can't expect a realistic translation until you show pictures that will identify conclusively whether your item is Chinese or Japanese. China, Japan and Korea all originally used Chinese characters, and although both Korea and Japan have developed alternative phonetic writing systems, both still use Chinese characters in their porcelain marks with a few variations.

Thank you in advance,

Bill H.

I've posted numerous inquiries on this wonderful forum before with nothing but marks or text before and have always gotten satisfactory answers from others without fail. With that being said, if you wanted a couple of extra photos all you had to do was ask from the onset. I'll appreciate reading your conclusion on the mark. Thank you.

Fact is, I'm old and set in my ways, and whenever someone in search of information doesn't provide everything that have in their possession needed to formulate a sensible answer, I don't mind getting heat if it is productive, as it is here, thank you.

The painting on your dishes doesn't look much like traditional Chinese, Japanese or Korean brushwork, probably contemporary in my opinion. Also, while the characters might represent a name or other mark in one of the languages, they don't seem to be written by an experienced calligrapher or artist; more like they were copied.

I'll defer to the opinion of others, especially I.Nagy, the real Master Linguist of these languages for further comment.

Bill H.

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