NORITAKE COTTAGE SCENE VINTAGE SUGAR & CREAMER C. 1930

Each piece is tastefully hand painted with a tranquil cottage scene in hues of blue, brown, green, orange and yellow.

The Sugar measures 6” from handle to handle by 5 1/4" High; the creamer measures 4 3/4" Diameter from lip to handle by 3 3/8” High.

COMMENT: This Lovely Noritake Sugar & Creamer Set is ideal for the cottage environment! It can add a ray of color & charm to any breakfast table!

NOTE: In the photo session, please note that the lid of the sugar was placed backwards. You will see the difference in the very first photo or thumbnail. Please excuse this inconsistency.

This specific set is illustrated in Joan Van Patten’s book “Noritake China”, copyright 1984, page 125, plate 134. This sugar & creamer carries the "red" mark for the factory.

CONDITION: Excellent!

HISTORY OF NORITAKE PORCELAIN

In 1876 Noritake’s founder, Baron Ichizaemon Morimura and his younger brother, Yutaka Morimura began in business. The person who nurtured the two brothers' knowledge was none other than Yukichi Fukuzawa the founder of Keio University.

The history of Noritake started with the Morimura brothers establishing a trading company “Morimura-kumi” in Ginza in 1876 and then "Morimura Brothers" in Yutaka’s destination city, New York, in 1878, which they used to trade Japanese china, porcelain and dolls.

Not long after they created their own china factory, they advanced into the world market as a fully fledged porcelain maker.

Morimura Brothers, established in New York in 1878, was the first imported goods shop to import Japanese antiques and porcelain. This is certainly what one can say is the start of Japanese-American trade. However, a few years later the stage was shifted from New York to Paris. Interest in the East was strong and at the Paris Expo where Japanese culture attracted attention, the Morimura brothers were most fascinated in Western tableware.

It was at this time in Paris during the Paris Exposition in 1925 that “Industrial Art Deco” was coined as a terminology to describe a style that was geometric with clean lines that was a little cold and aster, yet highly attractive to the avant guard who was seeking a new modernist look in art forms of all sorts of things from furniture to glass to metal wares all the way to porcelains.

After the Paris Exposition, these two brothers from the Noritake factory began producing fine lines of porcelain dinnerware which today is widely collected as discontinued china.

Since then Noritake has permeated throughout world trade and has entered many a home through the nation and has become treasured by many and has gracefully adorned many a kitchen or dining room table for over several generations.