VINTAGE ARITA JAPAN TEA TRIO c1900-1920

DESCRIPTION:

An antique to vintage porcelain tea cup, saucer and side plate, decorated with
hand-painted scenes of Mount Fiji and Geisha, white slip-work and gilt moriage.
Japanese porcelain tea services, often eggshell thin, were produced during the
period 1900-1920. Always highly decorative and of good quality, they were the
most popular souvenir purchase of merchant seaman visiting the Far East. Almost
every family with sea-faring traditions owns the remnants of such a service.

MARKS:

Gilt Arita mark in Japanese script.

CONDITION:

General rubbing of gilt and wear to decoration, commensurate with age and utilitarian use,
  tea cup with a fine stained hairline and saucer with two base rim chips (see close-up images).

DIMENSIONS:

Plate approximately 15.5cm in diameter, saucer 14cm and cup 9.5cm X 4.5cm in height.