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Hi Paul,
These pieces probably are transfer-decorated. Japan's ceramics industry had acquired transfer-printing technology around the beginning of the 19th century, not long after it was invented in England. The Japanese call this technique "In Ban," and it has become as much of an art form to them as "Flow Blue" has for the British.
The presence of transfer printing sometimes can be a useful clue in differentiating between Japanese and Chinese antique ceramics. In China, with its larger labor pool, it was more cost-effective to train artisans to hand-paint ceramics, so transfer decoration wasn't adopted on a commercial scale there until several decades into the 20th century. Just beware those clever old Staffordshire, Meissen and Limoges "Chinoiserie" transfer patterns that often are mistaken for Japanese and Chinese.
Regards,
Bill H.
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