5019 - Japanese Porcelain Coffee Set, 28-piece, Kutani, elaborate gold painting with landscape motifs

Japanese Porcelain Coffee Set, 28-piece, Kutani, elaborate gold painting with landscape motifs Decorative Japanese coffee set made of white porcelain featuring elaborate polychrome landscape paintings and rich gold embellishments. The individual pieces depict a Far Eastern landscape featuring a waterfall, a bridge, traditional buildings, forested mountains, and bodies of water. Particularly noteworthy are the finely detailed gold-colored depictions of trees, the delicate pink landscape backgrounds, and the ornate borders running around the pieces. The handles, the lid of the coffee pot, and the spouts are also gold-colored. The set consists of a total of 28 pieces: • 1 coffee pot with lid\ • 1 sugar bowl with lid and two handles\ • 1 milk jug with spout and handle\ • 11 coffee cups with gold handles\ • 12 matching saucers\ • 2 large round serving plates or pastry plates Origin: Japan Material: Porcelain with polychrome painting and rich gold decoration. Mark on the bottom: Japanese characters in a rectangular reddish-brown cartouche; presumably Kutani; manufacturer not definitively identified. Total number of pieces: 28