Antique Japanese Kutani Daishoji Imari Porcelain Soba Choko Tea Cup 3 Friends
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Type: Soba Sauce Dipping Cup (Soba Choko; often used as tea cups (yunomi)). They're typically tapered in a way where they can easily stack inside each other.
Material: Porcelain
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Origin/Maker: Daishoji Imari (Kutani ware in style of Imari), Kutani ware, Kanazawa area, Ishigawa Prefecture, Japan. Fuki-Choshun (富貴長春) maker's mark on base. Meaning Wealth, Nobility, Longevity and Youth, also translated as "Good fortune and long life" or "Wealth and Everlasting Spring". Alternative translations add that fuki (huki) also means peonies and is a symbol of wealth and choshun means roses, a symbol of everlasting spring as in, forever young. This mark was mainly used during the Meiji Period, from 1868-1912. During this period, Japan moved from being an isolated society to one with more open trade, where this one of the earliest trade marks not imitating a Chinese Imperial Nian Hao (reign mark).
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Size: 3 1/2" diameter (8.89 cm), 2 5/8" tall (6.6675 cm)
Weight: 3.8 oz (110 g)
Provenance:
Present: Ryan Snooks collection of Japanese & Asian Decorative Art
Previous: Private Collection
Collected: Fuji-Torii antique store, Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan January 2020. Includes paper from store with the following text:
大聖寺榮錦 松竹梅模様 猪口
明治・大正期 / early 20th. С.
Old Kutani cup with design of 3-Friends (Pine, Plum and Bamboo) in traditional Imari pattern in enamels & gilt. Fuji-Torii
(Per Google Translate, Japanese text translates to something like the following:
Daishoji Ei Nishiki Pine, Plum and Bamboo pattern Choko)
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos. No cracks or chips.
Subject: Flower shaped cup with painted and underglaze blue and white (sometsuke) designs of the three friends of winter (plum blossoms, bamboo leaves, pine branches), Shou longevity symbols (in unusual bright green), and auspicious treasures of good fortune
Location:
Antique Japanese Kutani Daishoji Imari Porcelain Soba Choko Tea Cup 3 Friends
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See also:
Type: Soba Sauce Dipping Cup (Soba Choko; often used as tea cups (yunomi)). They're typically tapered in a way where they can easily stack inside each other.
Material: Porcelain
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Origin/Maker: Daishoji Imari (Kutani ware in style of Imari), Kutani ware, Kanazawa area, Ishigawa Prefecture, Japan. Fuki-Choshun (富貴長春) maker's mark on base. Meaning Wealth, Nobility, Longevity and Youth, also translated as "Good fortune and long life" or "Wealth and Everlasting Spring". Alternative translations add that fuki (huki) also means peonies and is a symbol of wealth and choshun means roses, a symbol of everlasting spring as in, forever young. This mark was mainly used during the Meiji Period, from 1868-1912. During this period, Japan moved from being an isolated society to one with more open trade, where this one of the earliest trade marks not imitating a Chinese Imperial Nian Hao (reign mark).
www.gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml
Size: 3 1/2" diameter (8.89 cm), 2 5/8" tall (6.6675 cm)
Weight: 3.8 oz (110 g)
Provenance:
Present: Ryan Snooks collection of Japanese & Asian Decorative Art
Previous: Private Collection
Collected: Fuji-Torii antique store, Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan January 2020. Includes paper from store with the following text:
大聖寺榮錦 松竹梅模様 猪口
明治・大正期 / early 20th. С.
Old Kutani cup with design of 3-Friends (Pine, Plum and Bamboo) in traditional Imari pattern in enamels & gilt. Fuji-Torii
(Per Google Translate, Japanese text translates to something like the following:
Daishoji Ei Nishiki Pine, Plum and Bamboo pattern Choko)
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos. No cracks or chips.
Subject: Flower shaped cup with painted and underglaze blue and white (sometsuke) designs of the three friends of winter (plum blossoms, bamboo leaves, pine branches), Shou longevity symbols (in unusual bright green), and auspicious treasures of good fortune
Location:
Antique Japanese Kutani Daishoji Imari Porcelain Soba Choko Tea Cup 3 Friends
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