One Nippon pitcher features a hand-painted rose design with gilded accents. Second Nippon pitcher has been hand painted with pink wildflowers against a green background. Green pitcher is signed "Hand-painted Nippon" on verso. Rosebud pitcher does not have Nippon marking but style strongly suggests this is a Nippon piece. Each pitcher measures apprx 7" H x 7" W. Also included in this lot is a lidded pitcher from Bavaria. Hand-painted with wildflowers and accented with gilt. Pitcher comes with a matching saucer which measures apprx 6" in diameter. Pitcher signed "Cacilie, Selb, Bavaria." Saucer is marked "Porstenberg, Germany."
The word used in the back stamp of famous Asian china, Nippon, simply means Japan. Nippon china was produced for export to the United States beginning in 1865, when the country ended its long period of commercial isolation, and ending in 1921, when the United States enforced the McKinley Tariff act which prohibited the import of items which were not plainly marked, stamped, branded or labeled in legible English words. As Nippon was considered the Japanese word for the country of origin, Japan being the English equivalent, the period of the Nippon china mark came to an end.
300/400 Sold $161.00
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