CHINA PATTERN - Can anyone help to ID this China Mark and Pattern? Possibly Japanese

[allstatesauctions]

Beautiful Pattern that I can't ID - can anyone read the mark?

[maxine*j]

I think it is a smeary NIPPON (Japan) mark.  It might be NIKKO.  Go here, scroll down to Nikkon  and then to Nippon to see what you think:

http://www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml

[allstatesauctions]

Im going to pull another piece with a better mark to see