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Art Deco Noritake Luster Porcelain Fruit Egg Warmer Server Caddy Tray Stopper
AI Research and Description
An exceptionally scarce piece of social dining history here. While many collectors misidentify this specific mold as a muffin dish, egg cup carrier, or generic condiment tray, it is a highly specialized Egg Warmer / Egg Server Caddy. The central well is filled with boiling water, which retains heat to keep up to four soft-boiled or hard-boiled eggs warm at the breakfast table via ambient conduction. Finding this piece with its original structural, gilded porcelain water-port stopper intact is an elite-tier collector point.
Description:
Size Maximum Diameter (Base): 5.5 inches Maximum Height: 4.0 inches (measured to the upper apex of the fixed central handle)
Brand / Maker: Noritake (Nippon Toki Kaisha Ltd)
Origin: Japan (Nagoya)
Period: Art Deco, circa 1921–1940
Authentication Mark: Green "M-in-Wreath" backstamp definitively stamped on the center underside of the base, reading "Noritake, Hand Painted, Made in Japan." The registration style indicates mid-interwar period production.
Origin: Japan (Nagoya)
Period: Art Deco, circa 1921–1940
Authentication Mark: Green "M-in-Wreath" backstamp definitively stamped on the center underside of the base, reading "Noritake, Hand Painted, Made in Japan." The registration style indicates mid-interwar period production.
Item Dimensions
- Maximum Diameter (Base): 5.5 inches
- Maximum Height: 4.0 inches (measured to the upper apex of the fixed central handle)
- Technical & Visual Specifications
- Form / Concept: Two-piece specialized breakfast hollowware assembly consisting of a hollow, circular egg-warming reservoir chamber and an independent porcelain plug stopper. The upper deck features four deep, integrated pearlescent egg apertures surrounding an elevated, bridge-style central carrying handle. A central filling aperture accepts hot water into the internal reservoir to maintain egg serving temperatures via thermodynamic heat transfer.
- Glaze & Ground Finish: Multi-toned lusterware application. The lower base walls feature a highly reflective lavender/periwinkle blue metallic luster. The upper deck is finished in an iridescent apricot/peach ground. The four egg-holding recesses feature an ultra-high gloss white mother-of-pearl luster finish designed to catch light.
- Decoration: Hand-painted Art Deco stylized fruit cartouches situated between the egg wells. The repeating border motifs feature highly pigmented red and yellow apples, split peaches, yellow pears, and clusters of deep purple grapes accented with rich green foliage. The compositions are framed by thick, hand-brushed black enamel containment bands.
- Gilding: Heavy, high-fired bright gold gilding applied directly to the top face of the central bridge handle, the handle support columns, the perimeter filling lip, and the entire exposed top dome of the accessory porcelain stopper.
- Condition Report
- Structural Integrity: Pristine condition. Entirely free of structural chips, hairline cracks, spider fractures, or professional restorations. The delicate, hidden lower collar of the removable porcelain stopper is structurally complete without typical usage flea bites.
- Surface Wear: Excellent preservation. The highly volatile periwinkle and peach luster glazes retain strong iridescence with no foggy oxidation spots, chemical wiping wear, or surface dullness. Gold gilding remains thick and uniform across the high-contact handle grip and stopper dome with no visible thinning. Hand-painted fruit enamels are complete and vibrant.
- Interior State: Internal water reservoir is completely dry, showing zero calcification, mineral staining, or mold growth.
CONDITION