NORITAKE VINTAGE PORCELAIN SERVING BOWL COTTAGE SCENE

This Naive Hand Painted “Cottage” Scene Porcelain Serving Bowl was manufactured by Noritake, Japan approximately 1930-1940.

The Charming Serving Bowl measures 10" from handle to handle and has a Diameter of 9” by 3” High. It has a cottage & water scene which is naively hand painted with tones of green, orange and mauve with brown trees.

COMMENT: When serving at the cottage breakfast table, this Noritake porcelain serving bowl is guaranteed to please and have eyes cast upon it for its warm beauty! It can easily add a splash color to any breakfast table or simply look charming in a kitchen hutch. This Cottage scene line of Noritake Dinnerware is highly collectible.

This mark is illustrated in Joan Van Patten’s book “Noritake China”, copyright 1984.  This piece carries the “red” mark.

CONDITION: Reasonably good! There is some minor wear to the gold gilded edge and some minor surface wear to the central hand painted scene; there are no cracks, no stains and nor restoration! Therefore we are offering this Japanese porcelain bowl in "as is" condition.

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.

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