This Lavish Hand Painted “Violet” Motif Porcelain Vase Was Manufactured by Noritake, Japan approximately 1920-1930.
The Vase measures 8 1/4” High by 3 1/2” Wide. It is tastefully hand painted with tones of green, orange, pink, purple and yellow against a dark rich brown ground color with a lavish splash of sponge gold to accentuate the beauty of the violet.
COMMENT: This Absolutely Knock Out Gorgeous Noritake Violet Vase Is Guaranteed To Please And Have Eyes Cast Upon It For Its Exquisite Beauty! It can easily add a ray of color & class to any formal table or simply look charming in a curio cabinet. It is most definitely a great collector piece for those who collect these exquisite earlier examples of Noritake. When it comes to a vase of this caliber, one cannot overlook its beauty and quest for its ownership!
This mark is illustrated in Joan Van Patten’s book “Noritake China”, copyright 1984, page 100, mark 51. This piece carries the “red” mark.
CONDITION: Excellent! There is absolutely no wear to the sponge gold, and there is no restoration!
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.
