316 - JAPAN, SHOWA ERA (1926–1989)

JAPAN, SHOWA ERA (1926–1989) Set of nine sake bottles Set includes: - nine military commemorative porcelain sake bottles, featuring enameled or molded decorations of weapons, flags, and kamikaze pilots. One bears the “Tokusei” mark. Height: 13 to 15.5 cm - forty-three Japanese Army porcelain sake cups with underglaze enameled or incised decorations of weapons, palaces, shields, flags, or soldiers, shaped like seashells (with ridges). Diameter: 5.4 to 9.8 cm Also included: - One red lacquered sake cup with a gold-enameled decoration of a monk. Diameter: 9 cm. In a wooden box - a metal sake cup decorated on the base with ink. Diameter 6.8 cm. - two porcelain sake cups. Diameter 5 cm. In paper boxes. - a footed cup with blue underglaze enamel and red iron-glaze decoration depicting a hilly landscape. Diameter: 11 cm - a high-rimmed cup on a ring foot with celadon underglaze relief decoration depicting a tank, a helmet, and a saber. Diameter: 6.5 cm - One cylindrical porcelain pitcher with polychrome enamel decoration on the sides and lid depicting the flags of Manchukuo. Length: 13 cm. Diameter: 8.7 cm Also included is a lidded box made of white glazed porcelain, inscribed “Food Container for the Department of Defense” (防衞食). H. 9.8 cm