Noritake 4 Vintage Porcelain Demitasses Melroy Pattern [SOLD]

These Adorable Porcelain Demi Tasse Sets are of Noritake, Japanese manufacture and were made in 1930’s. The pattern name is “Melroy”. Each piece is stamped on the back: “U.S. Design Pat 86206.”

Each piece is delicately hand painted with partial transfer print. The flowers are yellow, blue and pink against a green pedal background with a beaded gold gilded edge.  These are to be sold only as a set of 4 and are priced as such.

COMMENT: Adorable, Charming and Sweet are three words that justly describe these demitasses.

CONDITION: Excellent! There is no chipping, no cracks, no rubbing nor staining.

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 permeated throughout world trade and has entered many a home through the nation and has become treasured by many.