Id & date oriental thin porcelain cups and saucers

Hello friends

I would like to receive your help to identify and date these wonderful cups with their saucers, in oriental porcelain.
They have a particularity, the porcelain is very thin, translucent, almost transparent against the light, look at the pictures for your reference.

Thank you all for your valuable help

 

Just from the translucency, I'm going to guess - Japan pre WWI.
It is just a guess. Wait for other responses

 

Ok thanks, on the web i find something about "egg porcelain" but it's full of different info and they give me more confusion than before.
I wait for other comments, ok, thanks a lot in the meantime

 

Hi,
I think you meant egg shell porcelain.
greg

 

yes yes egg shell porcelain .

 

I thought eggshell porcelain was Chinese. So in trying to verify, I see that eggshell porcelain like everything else is being made today.

My original thought was Japanese, but maybe it is newer Chinese.

They are very pretty.

 

@clutteredcloset49 thanks for your reply .

Browsing the web, i noticed that it's full of Japanese eggshell porcelain

If you type on google "Japanese eggshell porcelain"
there are many results, above all next Etsy

What do you think ?

 

Maybe @Mat and @Asian Fever can help us more

 

looks like Imari

 

In my opinion it does not look like Imari.

@Gianluca72
I will have to come back tonight and look at Japanese egg shell porcelain. Right now I need to leave for work.

 

ok i'll just wait thanks

 

And you might be right, just my opinion it resembles imari. But if you really want to know what it is, try the forum ( bidamount.com) it's a site that only caters to Asian porcelain and antiquities. You should be able to find your answer there.

 

Gianluca -
As I suspected what comes up as eggshell Japanese porcelain in the pre WWII transluscent china, which are pretty common patterns. Geisha girl, Mt Fuji/pagoda etc.

https://www.google.com/search?q=jap...sJbeAhXlnuAKHXPfDjkQ_AUIDygC&biw=1321&bih=803

Notice the banding on the rims of yours, the bright colors on the almost pure white porcelain (which the Japanese isn't), also the colors used.
I really suspect yours is newer Chinese eggshell.

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1....133.0j1......1....1..gws-wiz-img.ReLz6JX_rj0

This is all only my opinion. I am not an expert in this area.
@Asian Fever would appreciate your thoughts.

 

Imari is Japanese porcelain. It has a specific color palette that Gianluca's doesn't exhibit.
Imari colors are cobalt, orange reds, gold on white.
https://www.google.com/search?q=jap...S98KHaHEAgYQ_AUIECgD&biw=1321&bih=803#imgrc=_

This will explain it better
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imari_ware

 

Thanks a lot for your explanation, i set the best answer