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I'm not able to respond to everyone who reacted to my question about
Japanese whitewares butI do thank everyone.
My dating of 1840-1880 is most probably wrong. The site in Nijmegen I
am working out was excavated in a great hurry in 1976. The contence
of the two cesspits with this material can be dated from Tyneside-
pottery marks and Maastricht pottery in this period. So their must be
some later backfill.
But.... Nijmegen was bombed by accident in 1944 (by the RAF), nothing
was built on the lot afterwards. So it can't be post-1944. Of the
approx. 300 cesspits we dug up none dates futher than 1913, the year
when the garbage collection started in the lower-town. From your
recations I learned that in the US pre-1921 Japanese ceramics occur
with the MADE IN JAPAN mark. The most probable thing is that
manufactures where ahead of the law and already marking MADE IN JAPAN
before it became obligitory in 1921.The marking with NIPPON started
in 1890 (the McKinley Tariff Act). Our finds, I think now must be
dated in the first decade of this century.
The trade-laws in Europe start at the same time, around 1890. Objects
with Hergestellt in Preussen, RIGA-RUSSLAND, WIEN-AUSTRIA we
find now and then. Interesting stuff.
thanks again
Michiel Bartels
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