I gave all my book's away. But that is a strange, pattern for Noritake.

Can you show us the mark (bottom)? Like crazyike, it isn't a pattern I'd associate with Noritake.

Hi, thanks for the interest. Have posted the mark here .

and the lid in more detail

I'am inclined to believe it's a 1970's fake. is the inside completely glazed ? that's one clue. if it's not it's fake. What they did was cover the fake Noritake trademark with a foil sticker which of course was pulled off after it was received.

The inside is fully glazed, and I know it was in my family before 1956 and believe well before that date. It is impossible to find out more information of its origin, but from other artifacts that were also in the family it it possible it was obtained in the period 1935-1939.

Thank you for the interest as this item as puzzled me for a long time.

Have you gone through the pages of Images of Noritake china on the Replacements dot com website? You might get lucky and find it there.

Good luck.

ML

I have and unfortunately not seen a flower pattern which matches. I imagine the plate would have a gilded edge to match that on the piece I have.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Do you know what it was used for? Bowls that size could be cracker jar, possible dresser container(powder tho bit big for that) sugar master etc?? I looked through my Nippon book & didn't find it but I didn't go through every page. Looked for similar colors on a piece & didn't find that either. They did have some unusual pieces.

I'm sorry but I have no idea what its original purpose was. In looking through all the sites I have not been able to see anything similar. Very puzzling!
Thank you for your interest and just maybe someone will come up with the answer, or be able to point me in the right direction.