ノリタケ・大倉陶園・名古屋輸出陶磁器
Noritake, Okura and Nagoya export porcelain
Aichi (Nagoya); Okura Tōen in Tokyo / Kanagawa · Meiji–Taishō period (Morimura-gumi founded 1876; Nippon Tōki Gōmei Kaisha founded 1904)
Modern Western-style porcelain made in Nagoya and Tokyo for export and domestic use, including 'Old Noritake' and Okura fine porcelain.
Noritake grew out of Morimura-gumi, a trading company founded in 1876 by Morimura Ichizaemon and his brother Toyo, who ran a shop in New York selling Japanese goods. Morimura-gumi began commissioning porcelain decorated for Western buyers, and in 1904 it founded Nippon Tōki Gōmei Kaisha in the Noritake area of Nagoya. The company developed hard white porcelain and, in 1914, produced its first Western-style dinner set made in Japan. Pre-war export pieces, decorated with gold, enamels and painted scenes, are collected as 'Old Noritake'. Nagoya became a major centre for decorating and exporting porcelain. In 1919 Ōkura Magobei and his son Ōkura Kazuchika, both connected to Morimura, founded Okura Tōen in Tokyo to make high-quality artistic porcelain.
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Hard-paste white porcelain in Western shapes, decorated with overglaze enamels, raised gilding (moriage), transfer prints and hand-painting; Okura is known for very white high-fired porcelain.
Comment identifier Noritake, Okura and Nagoya export porcelain
Backstamps such as 'Noritake', 'Nippon', 'Made in Japan' or the Okura mark on the base; heavy raised gold and dotted moriage decoration on Old Noritake vases; Western shapes (urns, handled vases) painted with European-style landscapes or florals.
