Read - A Beautiful Small Vanity Set With An Under Plate And Two Trinket Dishes. Elegantly Hand Painted Cherry Blossoms And A Colorful Bird. So according To My Research These Pieces Would Date Back To 1921 Or Earlier. I Also Concluded That Someone At Sometime Didn’t Know What Or Where They Were Made And This Why We See Shiny “New” Made In China Stickers Attached. The “M” Inside The Wreath Means Morimura Bros. Technically These Are Considered Antique Instead Of Vintage.

At first due to the shiny gold labels assumed this was made in China. Then while cleaning the item and inspecting it, I saw some faint markings. These pieces are actually Nippon made in Japan. Japanese porcelain made for export to the United States from 1891 to 1921 is called "Nippon Porcelain" because the word "Nippon" was on each piece. The word "Nippon" was required by the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890. This law stated that all manufactured goods imported to the United States be marked with the country of origin. Since "Nippon" was the Japanese word for the country of Japan, porcelain made there for the U.S. market was marked "Nippon" to comply with the new law. American trade officials accepted "Nippon" as the name of the country of origin until 1921. At that time, it was ruled that "Nippon" was a Japanese word. Since the law required the country of origin to be an English word, the use of "Nippon" was forbidden from 1921 on. The period between the passage of the McKinley Act in 1890 and the English word ruling in 1921 is the only time "Nippon" appeared in authentic marks. For years, this knowledge was an easy rule of thumb collectors used to their benefit. Any mark with "Nippon" had to be made before 1921 when the word was banned from U.S. imports. This rule held true until the early 1980s when new porcelain began appearing with marks containing the word