Who made this antique porcelain?

[Tallone]

I usually hang out in the Garage Sales forum. This is my first post in the What Is It? forum. I'm hoping somebody can help me identify a maker. Shown below is a porcelain tea set I picked up at a flea market last weekend for $10.



The pictures don't really do justice to the quality of this set. This is a truly beautiful tea set in excellent condition. The design work is very intricate. I am guessing but it looks to me like the gold glaze has real gold in it. The tiny red and blue dots are raised. It is easy to feel them when you run your finger across the surface. The set appears to be rather old. A few of the little dots have come off and there are a few places where the gold glaze has worn off. There is also some scuffing on the bottoms.

I have looked high and low for another piece of porcelain with that crossed arrows makers mark - no luck. I am guessing this set is English although I am puzzled by the spelling of the word "porcelaine". That is how the French spell the word but, in English, the ending "e" is generally omitted. I can't imagine a French made piece would spell out "hand painted" in English but I don't think an English made piece would put the ending "e" on porcelain. I am wondering if the English used to spell porcelain with the extra "e" a long time ago. If so, this might help date the set.

I have found a couple of makers named "Canterbury" but I can't find any of their pieces with this pattern. I found a few patterns named Canterbury but, as far as I can tell, the maker's don't use the crossed arrows mark.

I am hoping somebody here is knowledgeable about antique porcelain and can either identify this maker's mark and/or direct me to a resource that might help. I have been to the kovels.com web site and found a crossed arrows makers mark but kovels wants me to pay for a subscription to get details on the mark. I don't handle a lot of antique porcelain so it would probably be a waste of money for me to subscribe there. I actually signed up for their "free" subscription only to discover that getting maker's details requires a paid subscription.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

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[taz42o]

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[nhbenz]

Good reference page Taz. I'd only gotten as far as discerning that Canterbury was definitively a pattern, using the picture of the marks on these as a comparison: Demitasse Tea Set Porcelaine Empire 1066 Crossed Arrows Mark 14 Piece | eBay and, as often is the case, they didn't know who made it.

 

[Tallone]

Thanks for the reference, taz! I will put that site in my tool kit. This suggests that my tea set was made by Arnart as the image below is very similar to the markings on my set:



Of course, mine doesn't have the "Arnart 5th Ave." on it but everything else (the final "e" on porcelaine, 4 feathers on the crossed arrows, arrows pointing down toward the number, 4-digit #, etc.) all seem consistent. If this set is, in fact, Arnart then it is likely that this set was, most likely, made in Japan sometime between 1953 and 1957. Not exactly an antique then but still relatively old. In any event, it is a very pretty set and in quite good condition. It may not bring huge money but I would guess significantly more that the $10 I paid for it.

Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated.