Japanese porcelain pot IE&C co 19th century Art Nouveau style

  

Diameter 22 cm, height 10 cm. Ideal for serving as a cache-pot for a bonsai.

The pot weighs only 1.4 kg, but with the necessary protections, the shipping will exceed 2 kg. Hence the cost of transport. The porcelain of the IE&C company was produced from 1885 to 1925 in the Nagoya region, following the moriage technique. This brand remains quite mysterious.

My research on the internet led me to this, found on a discussion forum (translated from English). "The mark you refer to here, 'ICE & E Co', was used by an independent English company in the late 19th and early 20th century, who used to travel to Japan and source only the finest hand-painted wares from top Japanese kilns.

They then exported them from Japan to England for the English market, which couldn't get enough of Japanese Nippon ceramics. In order to keep the look and feel of Nippon wares, they used their own company name - IC & E within a green wreath, exactly the same as Nippon wares. The items they produced are actually quite rare and a good area to begin collecting. Moriage is a common name for slip or colored clay decoration, primarily on Japanese porcelain, that is somewhat similar to 'cake frosting' in which diluted clay has been used to give the piece a three-dimensional appearance.