Random object: Tea or Chocolate set

[jpelura3]

First time poster, I was given a Tea or Chocolate set which has characters on the box and different characters on the items themselves. I've tried to use google image and various translation sites in addition to trying the draw the characters myself over the last few years to no avail. 

 

My questions are:

 

1. What language are the characters? I'm not sure if they hanzi or kanji but from what I've read, the characters can be written the same but mean something different.

2. What do the characters represent?

3. What do the characters mean? 

 

I've added images of the outer box (blue) the bottom of a dish and the front of the dish. 

 

Thanks for any help. I've been curious about where these have come from and what the characters mean. I'll spend an hour trying to figure it out, then get frustrated and put them away for a while. 

 

John

 

[Lu]

@jpelura3, it seems something has gone wrong in attaching the images. Could you try again? Hopefully we can help deciphering them!

[jpelura3]

Something went wrong with the attachment. Here's another try. 

 

Thanks for giving this a try.

 

[jpelura3]

@Lu, I re-posted. I think it uploaded this time. 

 

-John

 

[Jim]

The three gold characters read 伊万里 which is a style of Japanese pottery but also reproduced in China, apparently. The two on the base are I think 爱陶 which seems to be the name of a contemporary Beijing maker. ETA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imari_ware

The characters being simplified would fit with it being a modern mainland piece.

[陳德聰]

None of t

On 9/10/2018 at 9:44 PM, Jim said:

The characters being simplified would fit with it being a modern mainland piece.

None of the characters in the pictures are simplified though.

 

伊万里 and 愛陶 are both Japanese

[Jim]

Ah, well let's hope there's a "Made in" somewhere on the box.