Antique early-20th Century Japanese(?) wall plaques
Offered for sale is this pair of antique early-20th Century hand-painted wall-hanging plates, most likely Japanese in origin and dating from the 1910’s to 1920’s. These are probably examples of early production, created before pressure from Western ceramic producers forced Japanese makers to mark their pieces with ‘Nippon’, ‘Made in Japan’ or ‘Export’ backstamps post-WW1. Various factories produced a wide range of quaint rural and waterside scenes for overseas markets, with these examples seemi