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Subject:More information about 5 wall plates please
Posted By: Rien van oosterbos Sun, Jun 26, 2022 IP: 84.26.162.238

Hello
Who can tell me if the shown plates are Koransha with Fukagawa Orchid Mark?
If so,in which period have they been produced?
If all 5 are exactly the same,can they be hand painted or are they industrial made?







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Subject:Re: More information about 5 wall plates please
Posted By: Bill H Mon, Jun 27, 2022

The historic Fukagawa Koransha company remains alive and well with headquarters in Tokyo's Ginza district. In my opinion, your dishes are a quite modern product of the company with decoration applied by transfer or other mechanical means, noticeable in the fact that they are all clones of the same unvarying design, whereas 19th century Koransha products were handpainted.

Koransha exhibited in New York in 2020. See the link below, which has a time line of company history and other info.

I've attached images of one of my favorite pieces of Koransha porcelain, an immaculately painted tripod cup with orchid mark and signature of Toshikian Kiso, artistic name of Fukami Sumi-No-Suke (D. 1886), a co founder of the Seiji Kaisha company and descendant of Fukami Obasen, who was among the Korean potters captured and sent to Japan by forces of the Warlord (Daimyo) Hideyoshi when they withdrew from the peninsula after their unsuccessful invasion attempt of 1592.

Best regards,

Bill H.

https://www.koransha.co.jp/koransha/koransha_english.html



Subject:Re: More information about 5 wall plates please
Posted By: Rien Tue, Jun 28, 2022

Thank you so much for the information
Now i know they are at least 100 years old
They are in perfect condition
Now i just have to find out if they have any interesting value for selling them
Not so often that there is a lot of 5 plates


Subject:Re: More information about 5 wall plates please
Posted By: Martin Michels Mon, Jun 27, 2022

It is a Koransha mark, see my picture, the name reads from right to left "Kooran" コオラン (= Koransha).
The Koransha website writes about this mark:
"The fan-shaped "Kooran" inscription is rare and unusual. It seems that it was produced from the Taisho era to the early Showa era".
So they date around 1920 and are not handpainted, but "transfer printed".
Regards,
Martin.




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