JAPANESE NIPPON ANTIQUE CHOCOLATE POT SET

This Lovely Simple Yet Elegant Nippon Chocolate Pot & 2 Matching Cups & Saucers were manufactured in Japan during the later part of the Nippon Period.

The chocolate pot measures 9 1/4” Height and has a Base Diameter of 5 1/16”. From lip to handle, it measures 6 1/2".

There are hand painted petite pink & red roses with green leave and details of blue near the top of the pot and rim of the cups & saucers upon a porcelain white ground.

COMMENT: For a quaint sip of hot chocolate before bedtime, this little chocolate set for two would be ideal! Another idea would be for cappuccino for two.

CONDITION: Excellent!

NIPPON PERIOD POTTERY & PORCELAIN The Nippon period started in 1865; this period was known as the Royal Nippon Period This period exhibited itself by use of deep rich dark cobalt blues, vibrant oranges, and intense yellows accentuated by extravagant use of lavish gold gilding upon pronounced porcelain forms and unique shapes. Most of the Early Royal Nippon porcelain did not carry manufacture marks. During the Meiji Period (1868-1912} much of the Nippon porcelain was decorated with gold.

As we approach the latter part of the Nippon period after (1912-1921), known as Late Nippon Period they become more conservative in use of gold and dark deep ground colors became less exuberant and the whiteness more revealing. Consequently pieces had less bold decorating and had more delicate and finer hand painted details to compensate for over use of larger floral and liberal use of embellished gold. As we approach the early 1920s, the decline of quality is evident.

After all, W.W. I. had wreaked havoc upon the world and many of the renowned porcelain factories took the brunt. Many factories were bombed; what factories remained either had to cut back on production, lay off painters and workers or cease production which led to their demise or succumbing to larger wealthier factories.