Join us in continuing the Noritake tradition We appreciate your patience! Gift Registry Try Samples Home. Advanced Search. Toggle Nav. Check the "Sold" listings to see what items comparable to yours sold for. The buying service from Replacements is easy to use. Local classified lists, like Craigslist , are free, and let you target a selling area. Seeing Collectibles The best way to learn about Noritake is to see it. Start in the country where it all began: the Noritake Garden and Museum are located in Nagoya, Japan and visitors there can learn about the china's history and see rare pieces of dinnerware from to present.
Collector and historian Yoshie Itani's website contains much information about the history and artistry of Noritake china, along with many examples. You can translate the site through Google.
Galerie Sonorite displays rare and unusual Noritake for sale but only if you are willing to pick it up in Japan. The photos are worth the time and effort to navigate the site which can be translated through Google. Famous Designs Noritake is still affordable for a new collector.
Lusterware is an ancient technique of decoration, and is achieved by adding a metallic oxide over a base color: when fired, the glaze looks iridescent. Lusterware can be found in blue, gold, white, and other colors. Noritake lusterware is often orange sometimes called peach and blue, with hand painted additions. Tree in Meadow sometimes called House by the Lake was originally named "Scenic" according to the collecting guide, Noritake: Jewel of the Orient , produced in the s, and hand painted.
You can find it in plates, bowls, waffle sets pitcher and sugar shaker , jam jars and many other items. Azalea was advertised as Noritake's most popular pattern and it remains so. The white, pink and gold flowers appeared on everything from teapots, to children's china table sets, to cream soup sets. Azalea was sold through the Larkin Company catalog, beginning in , and this partnership between Noritake and Larkin resulted in Noritake's name and products reaching millions of homes.
Pattern , or Gold and White, was produced for nearly 90 years, from circa to or The raised gold tracery was a rich looking, but affordable, design for the middle class home. The design is sometimes referred to as "Christmas Ball," although other Noritake designs have been called that as well. Research the Company Noritake has had a complex history, with many backstamps, thousands of designs and unidentified or forgotten patterns rediscovered every year.
Keeping up with this information can be overwhelming, but there are a number of excellent online and in-print resources for learning about Noritake china, among them: Gotheborg. The National Heritage Museum of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library has an excellent web page about Noritake, along with rare examples from the museum's collection. The translation is a bit difficult to follow but Noritakeshop. For a detailed timeline of Noritake and its products, Chinafinders is an excellent source.
They also locate pieces for collectors. At the time, Formula Brothers sold Asian antiques and decorative arts and exported traditional Japanese wares. In the 20th century, political and economic conditions restricted production and changed the direction of the company on more than one occasion. Heritage china patterns can be found on a variety of decorative wares, including pitchers, platters, gravy boats, and dinnerware. It is unclear exactly how many patterns have been produced by the maker to-date, but there are a few examples that attract collectors and are instantly identifiable as Heritage.
Like the name suggests, the pattern featured painted pink flowers on a white background with gold detailing around the edges and handles. This proved to be a profitable partnership for the Heritage company as it helped their products reach millions of homes and solidified their reputation in the United States. Produced in the early 20th century, another popular Heritage china pattern was Tree in the Meadow sometimes referred to as House by the Lake.
The pattern adorned plates, bowls, waffle sets, jam jars, butter dishes, among other decorative wares. Considered less of a pattern and more of a glazing technique, Heritage lusterware was one of their most popular and important developments in the 20th century. The thin metallic overgraze created an iridescent, rainbow-like glow that appealed to many, especially at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties and the years following the Great Depression.
Heritage lusterware can be found in orange, blue, white, gold, as well as other colors, and was featured on a variety of objects. Newer Noritake collections contain the Noritake stamp along with the pattern name etched on the bottom of dinnerware or fine-china decor products. If your item contains a four-digit number instead, this references the pattern number and name used by the company. Vintage Noritake may not have a pattern number or a name at all, but the Noritake company maintains a directory of all the patterns it has made since , sometimes referenced against the four-digit number.
Besides the Noritake database, many collectors and antique dealers keep databases that delineate Noritake pattern names, which you can look up online.
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