✅ SOLVED Japanese Porcelain Hallmark Help

[TreasureHunter02]

Can anyone identify this hallmark of this porcelain plate. I was also wondering the age too.
Thanks!

 

[Icewing]

Antique Chinese Porcelain collector's page, Ming, dynasty, porcelain marks

 

[mcl]

Hi,

Your mark says "德昌陶瓷". Google translate will mistakenly translate that as "Johnson Ceramics" and/or "German Ceramics" on occasion -- or maybe it isn't a mistake, there might be something special to the word, but more properly you could call it "Dechang Ceramics". What you need to know is, Googling those four Chinese characters will find you similar pieces.

It is not incredibly old or valuable, although it is authentic. You can see Chinese people talking about that here: µÂ²ýÌմɾ«Æ·Ç໨ƿ_µÂ²ýÌմɾ«Æ·Ç໨ƿ¼ø¶¨_À´×Ô²ØÓѹŶ­ANTIQUE_´ÉÆ÷¼ø¶¨_Ãñ¹ú¼ø¶¨_¹ÅÍæ¼ø¶¨¹À¼Û_»ªÏÄÊÕ²ØÍø

One poster asks, "how much is this worth?", and the one reply basically says, "nothing really, cheap and modern design."

Regardless it is a fun and interesting piece. I'd definitely keep it.

 

[mcl]

Antique Chinese Porcelain collector's page, Ming, dynasty, porcelain marks

This is a great page for looking up antique or reproduction Chinese pottery. I use it a lot when answering these questions. However this piece, being more modern, I don't believe is on that page (I didn't see it anyway). In these cases I always have to translate the characters.

 

[mcl]

Pretty sure I've ID'ed the source: Dechang Ceramics out of Shenzen. Here are a number of things they are selling new:

https://www.taobao.com/oshtml/buy-cn/cp_tcKy_bmk0tXGtw.html