Vintage Japanese Hand-Painted Porcelain Sake Set. Kutani

Vintage Japanese Hand-Painted Porcelain Sake Set. Pitcher and Four Cups. Kutani Yaki (Ware). Amazingly handmade and hand painted. Decorated with dark red and navy/black lines, black and red calligraphy. Gold floral elements. Blue dots are one by one hand-painted and called “ao tsubu” along with Kutani famous calligraphy art over crackled finish surface.
Bottle is 5 1/4″ tall. 4 Cups are little over 1 3/4″ tall. Marked in red on the bottom. Weight of the set is 13.5 Oz.
Estimated time period – Post WWII 1945. These Kutani saki sets were largely brought back from occupied Japan after the war by American GIs.
Excellent condition.

AO-CHIBU (AO TSUBU) – a pattern of raised blue dots often found in KUTANI YAKI.