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Beautiful Hand Painted Nippon"Cobalt Rose" Bowl/ Gold with Beaded Accents /Maple Leaf Mark (Morimura Bros.Co.)/ Circa 1891-1911

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    Posted 10 years ago

    mikelv85
    (1230 items)

    Couldn't believe I found this ! It was surrounded by a lot of junk on the shelf at our GW. Beautiful hand painted roses on a gilded and beaded 5 1/2" bowl. The mark on the bottom says "Hand Painted" with a Nippon maple leaf mark that dates it from 1891 -1911. The Morimura Bros. Co. in Japan was the major producer of "Nippon" and Noritake porcelain during this time period. Nippon is a westernized version of "Ni hon" meaning Japan. Pieces were required to have a mark from their country of origin for export after the McKinley Tariff Act of 1890. So this piece should be fairly early. Unfortunately there is a hairline crack in the bottom, which doesn't effect the beauty of this little piece at all. -Mike-

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    1. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      Mike, that's gorgeous
    2. mikelv85 mikelv85, 10 years ago
      Thanks Aim.... I love it too !
    3. vanskyock24 vanskyock24, 10 years ago
      very nice one mike
    4. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-Vintage-Unmarked-Hand-Painted-Bowl-Cobalt-Scalloped-2-/231144674613?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35d14bd535
    5. mikelv85 mikelv85, 10 years ago
      Picked up a nice book on Nippon the other day called "Van Patten's ABC's of Collecting Nippon" Cobalt has a lot of categories. Roses. Orchids, Mums, Pendants lots of gold and beading. Nippon porcelain is very beautiful and comes in a wide variety of shapes and styles. For a long time it was always under rated as grandma's junk. The book was published in 2005 and a little bowl like this in perfect condition would have been a $300 to $500 piece. Now since the recession the market has been cut in half. So this bowl with the hairline crack probably would bring only $50-$75 as a marked "Maple leaf" piece. Think I've found the beginnings of a new collection ! -Mike-
    6. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      Mike before I knew what Nippon stood for I practically gave away several pieces.
    7. mikelv85 mikelv85, 10 years ago
      I've already made a big mistake Aim....I missed a landscape plate the other day at GW that I had seen in this book. It had been there since before Christmas and they wanted eight bucks for it. I thought it was too much even thought it was marked "Noritake". It was still there a few days ago I looked at it again and passed. Now it's gone ! Dumb Dumb Dumb !! :P....lol -Mike-
    8. Fentonia Fentonia, 10 years ago
      Just lovely! Ahh, thrift store remorse... I know that malady well.
    9. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      Aww sorry Mike. It was just meant for the other person I guess, and a lesson learned to never hesitate. LoL
    10. mikelv85 mikelv85, 10 years ago
      Well Aim I found a piece the other day at the same store ! Nice little landscape plate with a Nippon mark. Grabbed that baby right away...lol. Not as nice as the first one but it's still the real deal. Thanks for reminding me I forgot to post it. :)
    11. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      Yay, congrats. See... learn from AR to swoop in on those deals! LoL
    12. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      Awesome link http://myriadtradingco.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/nippon-backstamps-and-known-dates-of-manufacture/ for Nippon backstamps
    13. mikelv85 mikelv85, 10 years ago
      Yes it is... I have the Van Patten book that these marks came from. I think it has like 15-20 pages devoted to just marks !
    14. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      Wow, that's great. I didn't know what all your book had, ask thought I would share what I found :)
    15. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      Sorry for the swypo LoL
    16. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      Would go nicely with your Cobalt Rose piece...
      http://www.ebay.com/itm/151246530275
    17. mikelv85 mikelv85, 10 years ago
      It sure would Aim ! You know my little bowl was priced at $300.00 about 10 years ago ! Nippon is in the dumper right now unless it's an extremely large and rare piece. I see that dish is only a 7.00 ! Might be worth bidding on...lol
    18. Aimathena Aimathena, 10 years ago
      No, I was pointing it out for you Mike because I knew you had a piece with the cobalt blue, but thanks for the heads up on prices/value. I love the pink and burgundy rose Nippon pieces.
    19. mikelv85 mikelv85, 10 years ago
      No that's OK you can bid on it.....LOL
    20. Trey Trey, 10 years ago
      Beautiful colors.
    21. mikelv85 mikelv85, 10 years ago
      Thank you Trey :)
    22. jscott0363 jscott0363, 9 years ago
      Wow!! That's beautiful!!

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