Late 19th or early 20th century, includes two cups decorated with swirls in cobalt blue and with a four character mark fuki choshun meaning "good fortune and long life" or "wealth and everlasting spring," a teapot with matching pattern but having a bluish celadon (seihakuji) ground, a sake bottle with same ground glaze and decorated with raised and painted bamboo pattern, a small sake cup with square saucer decorated with similar blue swirl pattern, and a bowl with raised leaf decoration and painted with blue with flowers and landscape against a bluish celadon (seihakuji) glaze.

Tallest 5.75 in.

From the Collection of Patricia H. Jardine, Chatham County, NC

Slight chip to interior of sake bottle.