China tea cups from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Nine (9) Noritake tea cups, pattern N1323 (ca. 1933), from the Rock Rest Tourist Home. Each cup has a white interior. The interior top edges of the cups have a thin, green scalloped band with yellow triangles. The exterior surfaces of the cups are cream and are decorated with two (2) yellow, dark pink, blue, and green floral sprays above a second band of green scalloping and yellow triangles. The top edges, cup handles, and edge of the base are decorated with gilt. The bottom bases of the cups are white with a Noritake stamp. The backstamp is a green arabesque wreath with yellow fill and a large, arabesque, black [M] at the center. Black text stamped above and below the wreath reads [NORITAKE] at the top and [JAPAN] at the bottom.

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