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Can someone help me identify this plate which I believe to be very old

Hello, your plate is Japanese and looks to date to the mid 18th century...possibly a little earlier. Definitely Edo era. The pattern in the center is called Sho Chiku Bai or the Three Friends of Winter. A very nice Ko-sometsuke piece. Hpe this helps some.

This dish exhibits enough pattern overlaps and other clues to identify it as an example of Japanese blue & white transfer (Inbande) ware, a technique the Japanese acquired from their trading partners the Dutch, who I believe acquired it nefariously from England, where the copper-plate process was developed toward the end of the 18th century. Despite subsequently experimenting with it around the area of Kawana (川名) and elsewhere in the late Edo period, this process was not employed on a commercial scale until about 1887 in the Hizen (later Arita) area. Accordingly, John's plate dates closer to the late Meiji-Taisho period, circa 1900-1925.

URL Title :Kawana Ware

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