FREE: Vintage Kutani THREE tea cups/saucers/TEAPOT **WITH LITHOPANE GEISHA** Dragonware Moriage

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Vintage Kutani tea cups/saucers/TEAPOT **WITH LITHOPANE GEISHA** Dragonware Moriage

Set of three CUPS & three SAUCERS AND teapot/coffee server.....ALL three cups have the lithopane Geisha in the bottom and visible when held up to light. Cups are demitasse size with saucers.
Measuresments:
Saucer 4.75 inches
Cups: 2.5 opening...3.5 including handle
Teapot/Coffeepot: 7.75 tall including lid
7.75 across spout to handle
All pieces are in excellent condition for age. One cup has a couple of dots inside underglaze. All are marked except the lithopane cups (which can't be for the lithopane to show). 2nd picture is meant to show the beautiful condition of the gold on the handles of all.

from google: The word Kutani means Nine Valleys and is the name of an area and a village. The two characters that make up the word Kutani consist of the character for "nine", ku and "valley". Since Kutani is a place, almost all pieces marked Kutani were decorated there even if by any of the many manufacturers or trading shops, rather than just a single factory. Porcelain decorators familiar with the Kutani style could also move around so as an example we can sometimes find pieces marked Yokohama & Kobe with decoration in typical Kutani style. Many Kutani made pieces might also have just the artist's as a mark, and no location at all, leading us to also needing to look at style as a clue to the origin of a piece.

I'm listing this because it would be such a great gift to give or to have for yourself and I have had it a while in safe keeping and need to pare down and begin to let go and let others enjoy some of my "treasures"....Thank you