Old Japanese Arita Plate

[Stan]

Hi Peter, I have two of these plates, the diameter is 27.94 X 27.94 cm the hight is 6.731 cm, I can tell that they are old 19th century, on the bottom foot I can see sand on the unglazed portion of the foot on some areas, that tells me that the foot was supported with some kind of a sand based support, it has the typical four lines marked on the bottom which is typical for Arita porcelain, could you please tell me what the marks mean, I have owned these for several years and have not been able to Identify the maker, I am putting these on because lately there has been others posting Arita ware on this site and these are what I call fine examples of Imari porcelain, I hope you can identify the marks, thanks peter, I purchased these from an antique dealer at an antique show, the lady I bought them from would not come down in her price at the time so I think I probably paid top dollar, but they are fine examples of old Arita Imari porcelain. thanks Peter.

[Stan]

Here is more photo's to view.

[Stan]

Last set of photo's to for view, thanks.

[Stan]

BTW these are all hand painted.

[peterp]

It is an apocryphal Chenghua mark. The mark appears frequently on older Japanese porcelain.

[Stan]

No wonder I could not find the Japanese mark, and here I have two plates signed with a Chinese Chenghua mark, thats great, thanks Peter.