Featured Wooden plate with unknown symbol

Hi. I have been spending days looking for information on this plate. I inherited it from my Grandmother. I cant read the makers mark on the back and can't find anything like it. It was hanging in my grandma's house growing up and I never asked her about it. I would love to know where it is from and what the symbol on the girls arm means. I have done searches for the symbol and can't find anything similar. I thought she had said it was from Germany, but I could be wrong. Any information would be great. Thanks so much. Heidi

 

The symbol on the lady's blouse looks rather like an anchor over a line to me. Since she's greeting 2 men walking along a shoreline (with a boat in the distance?) perhaps she's a wife of a sailor?

 

Welcome Heidi, I increased the contrast of the maker's mark on the back:

 

Another "perhaps" - that long blonde braid make me think Scandinavian?

 

It is a marquetry plate,there have been kits available for at least a hundred years and commercial items also.The marks at the bottom of the mark almost look Japanese/Chinese.

 

My first reaction on pieces like this is always Polish. The Poles have been doing a ton of marquetry decorative items for years now. There are a lot coming out of India too, but this one is European. I may be all wet, but she's definitely from the Baltic area somewhere.

 

Try Latvia.

Debora

 

Sure looks like it on closer inspection. That part of the world likes its wood inlay.

 

Latvian national dress.

Debora

 

Thank you. I will look at Scandinavian symbols.

 

The national flower of Latvia is the daisy.



Latvia's national landmark, The Freedom Monument," is a statue of a woman holding three stars representing the country's three districts.



You can check these symbols against the markings on your plate.

Debora

 

You people are amazing!