Very hard to say anything about the second item, perhaps it's worth posting a photgraph of the 'illegible' mark and a close up of one of the patterns. You can use the macro setting on your camera / phone and zoom and you should get a pretty sharp image of detail. A wild guess going by the scene on the first picture's cup is delftware, Holland, try and identify the type of windmill in scene perhaps it will give a clue to country, and also the inner rim has certain flora / wreaths on it, maybe another clue to country at least.basically you should research blue and white ware as a generic starting point.
