Fine scratches in gold overlay commensurate with age.
With the strong reflection created by its design and the gold layering, there is extensive multi shaded gold inlay and darker gold marks which cannot be determined clearly as being marks in the inlay or as being shading intentionally done in the gold as depth effect.
Many MARBRO pieces were originally Japanese ceramics with this dish probably being the same. It's style presents itself as a Fujita Kutani which is renowned for its highly stylized peony and chrysanthemum surface designs and gold overlays using the later introduced KINRANDE gold overlay technique (first production being in 1873) which became popular in Europe and later in the US just prior to the time in which items were beginning to be purchased by MARBRO to resell in Los Angeles.
However the Markoff brothers [hence MAR BRO] traveled the Orient and Europe extensively and the provenance of this dish, its date, its original maker and its seal, as well as when it was purchased originally, is not known.
It is known that starting in 1929 the items later sold as being MARBRO began to be collected and purchased by Morris and Elliot Markoff with the intention of selling them as decorative pieces or as components of lamps for which they are mostly known through the MARBRO LAMP COMPANY which they officially opened in 1935. Some items were marked by the maker or artist with the MARBRO marking added onsite and some were marked afterwards by MARBRO and sold as such with or without provenance indicators to the original maker or artist. The items were brought back by them personally thereby circumventing the McKinley designation, Made in Japan, Italy, etc. Though most of their business was conducted, and much of their travels were done, after WWII ended spanning mid-century, the MARBRO LAMP COMPANY formally stayed in business until 1987.
The MARBRO decorative accessories, such as this styled dish, as well as their well-made and often lavishly detailed lamps, catered mostly to interior designers and high-end furniture companies whose clientele often consisted of film industry notables and other high-fliers whose style subsequently lent itself towards naming the Hollywood Regency genre as such.
Because MARBRO later focused on their lamps, signed items like this dish are rarely seen and have become highly collectible as well as desired for their practical use in authentically complimenting the Hollywood Regency style and the MARBRO lamps which often are used in that regard as signature pieces.
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