Antique Blue Lustreware Tea Cup and Plates Made in Japan Swans Cherry Blossom
1 - 2 1/8" cup (there is a hair line crack on the inside, it does not go through) 3 - 3 1/4" saucers plates 3 - 4 1/4" saucers plates
Luster ware was made by
applying a metallic solution to the surface of a piece before the final firing.
The metals gold, copper, and platinum were chemically dissolved and applied
with a brush or by dipping. It is a type of pottery or porcelain with a metallic
glaze that gives the effect of iridescence, produced by metallic oxides in an
overglaze finish, which is given a second firing at a lower temperature in a
"muffle kiln", reduction kiln, which excludes oxygen.
Blue Lustreware Tea
Setdesigned and manufactured in Japan. This is a delicate eggshell
porcelain hand painted lusterware. Each
piece is decorated with lovely gray blue lusterware accented with orange and
yellow flowers with swans swimming on a lake. If you hold the pieces up to the
light they are translucent. The pieces are marked in red "MADE IN
JAPAN" and made after 1941. Pieces marked MADE IN JAPAN in plain text
without any company marks, in general, date to the period immediately after World
War II.
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