Vintage 1942 SHAMROCK Clover Chikaramachi Lusterware Tea Set -Service for 6 for Sale

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Vintage 1942 SHAMROCK Clover Chikaramachi Lusterware Tea Set -Service for 6 For Sale

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Vintage 1942 SHAMROCK Clover Chikaramachi Lusterware Tea Set -Service for 6:
$279.30

This is the most well cared for and complete Vintage 1952 Japanese SHAMROCK Basket-Weave Clover Chikaramachi Lusterware LuncheonTea Set I've ever seen - Each piece was Hand-Painted and Glazed wsith very meticulous and intricate detailing.Very RARE Service for 6- 23 Pieces Tea Set. (Most Complete Tea Sets are Serving for 4 or 5 People!) It has SIX (6) TeaCups and Saucers, SIX slightly larger matching LuncheonPlates, a Lidded Tea-Pot, a Lidded Sugar Bowl, and a Pour-Spout Creamer Pitcher.All pieces are AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL Lusterware with a crazy Greenish-Yellow Pearl-Like Iridescent Glaze on the insides. The handles are made to look like Bamboo or Ratan, but they are porcelain, too, just a very well designed replica of Bamboo and it is all one piece porcelain! The Teapot, Sugar Bowl, and Creamer Pitcher are pretty stout and made of a thicker more durable Japanese FIne-Bone-China Porcelain, but the teacups are very delicate and what a lot of collectors would call "Eggshell Porcelain"!I honestly do not know how my Grandmother managed to keep this entire set, something so prescious and delicate, for 82 YEARS, without so much as even a chip or a crack or a ding or a break whatsoever! VERY IMPRESSIVE Grandma..
EXCELLENT VINTAGE CONDITION~ No Chips~ No Cracks~ No Crazing~ No Repairs~Please See ALL Photos for Details because I consider them to be a BIG part of the Description!
(This Tea-Set Will Ship PRIORITY MAIL, AND IT WILL BE INSURED.)
Interesting Facts About CHIKARAMACHI Fine-Bone China:
CHIKARAMACHI, Was An Early Member of the Noritake Family!
The name Chikaramachi has been an integral part of the history of Noritake china since 1896. Little documentation exists today because nearly all the early records were lost when an incendiary bomb destroyed the home offices of Noritake on 19 March 1945. In the rubble and ashes were over 50 years of one-of-a-kind porcelain samples, ceramic molds, original drawings and sketches, registration records, etc.
The Morimura brothers, Ichizaemon and Toyo, first founded Morimuragumi (Morimura Association) in Tokyo as a Japanese goods export business, and the Hinode Company in New York in 1876. By 1882, they realized the great potential for chinaware and gradually developed what would become famous Noritake brand as their main line of merchandise. Existing records indicate that Morimuragumi had already established several exclusive porcelain decorating factories in Tokyo, Kyoto and Nagoya by 1884. In 1896, land was purchased to construct 5 buildings to consolidate the entire decorating process in Nagoya and the project was completed in 1899. Of significance is the name of one of the two parallel streets between which the buildings were constructed, Shumokucho and Chikaramachi.
The first Chikaramachi back stamp was registered in 1912. It consists of the Chinese ideograph character for tree within a circle surrounded by the words CHIKARAMACHI above and MADE IN JAPAN below. Noritake referred to this as the MARU-KI backstamp. There are no records indicating the significance of the blue, green or red color varieties.
The second series of three backstamps was registered in 1928. A crown within a laurel wreath had the word CHIKARAMACHI in a semi-circle above and MADE IN JAPAN in a straight line below. This mark appears in green or black. The second mark is red and consists of a slightly smaller crown within a laurel wreath with two lines in a semi-circle above CHIKARAMACHI and HANDPAINTED, and a semi-circle below, MADE IN JAPAN. The third mark is a samurai helmet with the word Chikaramachi in script in a semi-circle above, and MADE IN JAPAN in a straight line below. It is unknown what color varieties were produced. There are variations of the backstamps with the words FOREIGN or IMPORT used in place of MADE IN JAPAN. This was for those pieces exported to England.
Although it is unknown why Noritake developed and identified Chikaramachi as a separate line, there are several indicators that point to it being an apprenticeship program. First, the quality of the porcelain of many Chikaramachi pieces is quite crude having numerous imperfections and rough, unfinished edges. Second, the painting on many of the pieces is not up to Noritake standards with little consistency in layout and a definite lack of finesse in the brushwork. Yet, there are pieces that are the equal of the best of Noritake, almost as if they were produced on a trial basis to perfect the design before allowing their integration into the parent company lines. It's not known when they stopped using the Chikaramachi back marks, but all production, along with U.S. exports, ceased in 1942.
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