vintage Japan dragonware china tea set, lithophane porcelain cups, plates, dragon teapot

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Unmarked Japanese Kutani porcelain tea set, with red and gold dragons and geisha girl lithophane at the bottoms on the cups. It's a 1940s or 50s vintage set, complete and in very good condition showing little if any wear, no chips or cracks to any of these pieces.

There's a tea pot (about 9" wide x 7 1/2" tall) and cream pitcher and sugar. There's six plates 7 1/4" in diameter, and six cup and saucer sets.

These are all fairly heavy porcelain, with lithophane ladies visibly embossed. It isn't eggshell thin as some sets we've seen. But we love the dragons, and have never found this particular design in dragonware before!

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