Deco Noritake Style Lustreware Group of Ducks & Shakers

Published by Nevan O Shaughnessy on July 28, 2018July 28, 2018

Deco Noritake Style Lustreware Group of Ducks & Shakers.

PRESENTING a GORGEOUS and EXTREMELY RARE Deco Era, Noritake Style Lustreware grouping.

These are no a matching Set, but have been ‘grouped’ together for sale. Each piece is very RARE and all pieces would adorn ANY Noritake or Japanese Lustreware Collector’s Collection.

Included are:
A Duck Creamer and Duck Lidded Sugar POt
A set of 6 Gilted Salt/Pepper Shakers in Classic Deco Style.
A pair of Duck Napkin Rings.

From circa 1930- 35.
Made of lustre porcelain, with CLASSIC Deco styling.

A VERY, VERY RARE !!!! HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE!!!

Orange, blue, grey, gold and black lustre and white and yellow tones.

Marked for ‘Made in Japan’ .

Noritake Co., Limited (株式会社ノリタケカンパニーリミテド Kabushiki-gaisha Noritake Kanpanī Rimitedo), commonly known as “Noritake,” is a tableware and technology company headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
In 1876, Ichizaemon Morimura VI and his brother Toyo founded Morimura Gumi with the intent of establishing overseas trading by a Japanese company. By 1878, Toyo had established a business in New York selling Japanese antiques and other goods, including pottery. The company was renamed Morimura Brothers in 1881. By the 1890s, the company had shifted from retail to wholesale operations and started working on design improvements for the pottery and porcelain ware, which had become one third of its business. By 1899, all of the pottery and porcelain decorating factories in Tokyo and Kyoto had been consolidated in Nagoya, and the company started research on creating European style hard white porcelain in Japan.[3][4][5]
In 1904, key members of this trading company created the Nippon Toki Kaisha, Ltd. (“the Company that makes Japan’s Finest China”) in Japan.[5] A new factory was built in Noritake, near Nagoya (now Noritake-shinmachi, Nishi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi). In 1914 the company succeeded in creating their first Western style dinner set, called “Sedan”, to compete with European porcelain companies.[3][4] Nippon Toki wares were mostly aimed at the European Market. This forerunner of the modern Noritake Company was founded in the village of Noritake, a small suburb near Nagoya, Japan. Most of the company’s early wares carried one of the various “Nippon” back stamps to indicate its country of origin when exported to Western markets.[5] Today, many collectors agree that the best examples of “Nippon-era” (1891–1921) hand painted porcelain carry a back stamp used by “Noritake” during the Nippon era.
By 1923, Nippon Toki was looking to streamline its paperwork using machines to handle large orders coming in from the United States, and was impressed by the Hollereth tabulating machines manufactured by the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR). In May 1925, Morimura-Brothers entered into a sole agency agreement with CTR (which had been renamed IBM in 1924) to import the Hollerith machines into Japan. The first Hollerith tabulator in Japan was installed at Nippon Pottery in September 1925, making Noritake IBM customer #1 in Japan.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noritake

Deco Noritake Style Lustreware Group of Ducks & Shakers.

Provenance: From a Private Collection of a former Antique Dealer in TX.

Condition: Mint.

Dimensions:
Duck Creamer: ” wide, ” deep and ” tall.
Duck Lidded Sugar Pot: ” wide, ” deep and ” tall.
Set of 6 Salt/Pepper Shakers: ” wide, ” deep and ” tall.
Pair of Duck Napkin Rings: ” wide, ” deep and ” tall.