Eggshell Japanese Kutani Coffee Set 4273-C

Antique handmade Japanese porcelain coffee set, Satsuma Kutani. Oriental red coffee set with Japanese deities motif. Hand painted with gold leaf details made of high quality eggshell matte finish porcelain. Vintage set of six cups with saucers, a jug teapot with lid, a milk jug, a lidded sugar bowl, at Stern store.

Eggshell porcelain, also called Pinyin danpi bodiless or tuotai bodiless ware, or Wade. Chinese porcelain characterized by an excessively thin body under the glaze. It often had decoration engraved on it before firing that, like a watermark in paper, was visible only when held to the light; such decoration is called anhua, meaning literally “secret language.”