ANTIQUE NIPPON MAPLE LEAF COBALT & GOLD ENCRUSTED CHOCOLATE SET POT + 4 C/S

Description: Stunning cobalt blue and gold encrusted chocolate set from the Nippon era. This set includes a chocolate pot with lid and 4 cups and saucers. The bottom of the cups and the pot all have the blue maple leaf mark which dates them to the 1890s. The saucers are unmarked. This set is actually a "book set," featured on page 165 of Joan Van Patten's iconic reference book, "Van Pattens' ABC's of Collecting Nippon Porcelain (2005)." It's hard to capture the extraordinary beauty of this set so I'll be brief. The porcelain is white and there is a deep cobalt blue border around the top and bottom of the pot and lid, and on the handle; around the edge of the saucers; and around the tops of the cups. Beyond that, all the pieces are covered with gold encrusted decoration....beads, scrollwork, filigree, etc. I took as many photos as I was allowed. The pot measures 7 1/4" tall without the lid, 9 1/4" tall with the lid in place, and 6" across from handle to spout. The cups measure 2 1/2" tall and 2 1/2" in diameter across the openings. The saucers measure 5" in diameter. There are a few issues to report. The only major one is that the finial on the lid has been repaired. It looks like the lid was dropped and the finial came off and then was glued back on. The photos show the outside and inside of the lid where you can see the glue residue and the hairlines surrounding the repair. One of the cups also has a little repaired area at the top edge with a little nick in the gold next to it (last photo). Those are the only issues I could see. There may be other tiny nicks in the gold that I missed but certainly nothing else major. I did my best to examine these but the gold is so elaborate; and none of these issues are visible on display, especially not the finial repair, which you can only see upon close examination. If this set were perfect it would be valued at a lot more, of course, but this is still a set that any Nippon collector would be proud to own and display. Please feel free to message with any additional questions or request more photos, because again, I have reached my photo limit!

Price: 225 USD

Location: Brightwaters, New York

End Time: 2024-12-09T04:34:12.000Z

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