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Hi
Can any one help with the mark on the base of this plate please.Also any details on the type of decoration on the plate would be great.

Thank you

Martin

It's a stamped-on mark of the 18th century Qianlong Emperor, though it is on a Chinese plate with transfer decoration of Mandarin figures and auspicious Buddhist symbols dating no earlier than the third quarter of the 20th century.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Thank you Bill H.

With a transfer ,is the plate then painted over the transfer?With this plate there is a lot of raised areas like thick paint /enamel.

Thanks again.

Martin

The original process for making transfer ware produced "flow blue" type wares. It involved sticking tissue paper impregnated with cobalt pigment to the surface of the unfired dish before putting it into the kiln for pre-firing. This would burn away the paper and leave the pattern ready for glazing and refiring I believe.

From what I've seen and read, a lot of these Chinese patterns nowadays are laid down on the porcelain surface using rubber stamps, then are hand-painted like a child's coloring book before firing. Check out the following link:

http://gotheborg.com/qa/overjoy.shtml

There's also a lot of ink-jet and other digital technology available to the ceramics industry for printing colored patterns directly onto the surface of dishes before firing, but I have no appreciation for how much of that technology has been deployed to the factories that make dishes like yours. However, I do know that quite a few of the true antique porcelains that are bought and repatriated by China from the West are shipped to industrial zones associated with modern ceramics production, including not only Jingdezhen but Shenzhen and other special economic zones.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Thank you very much Bill H.

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