Description
Vintage Satsuma Moriage Japanese Gold Dragon Tea Set. 4 Cups & Saucers, Teapot, Sugar Bowl, Creamer. Handles and Lids in the Shape of Dragons. Gift for Tea Connoisseur or Collector. Asian Home Decor. Inside, Bottoms of Cups have Magical 3-D Images of Japanese Women, which Under the Light Look like Photos, Kutani Lithophane. Barely Visible Gold Loss on the Dragons and Rims, Otherwise in Excellent Condition. *We have an Extra, 5th Setting, but Cup has been Repaired. Plate and Saucer are in Excellent Condition.
*Moriage, a Japanese word that translates as “heap up,” is a trailed-slip decoration originally used to indicate the gilt beading seen on Japanese pottery; however, the term has also become widely used in describing the matte, slip-layered, heavy relief designs seen in Japanese ceramics especially identified with the style known as Dragon Ware, where slip is layered in a heavy relief design of trailing dragons.
*Kutani Lithophane, A Set of Japanese Teaware that, when you are drinking and point the cups towards the light a Japanese women will appear at the bottom of the cup.
Teapot:
6.5" tall
4" in diameter
2 1/4" mouth opening
Sugar Bowl:
5.5" tall
4" in diameter
2" mouth opening
Creamer:
5.5" tall
3" in diameter
1 3/4" mouth opening
Cup X 4
3.5" in diameter
2" Tall
Saucers X 5
5" in diameter
Dessert Plates X 5
6 1/4 in diameter
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6lb 5oz, NS, 14x12x12 + pck [9lb]
