Vintage Japan Stackable Coffee Mug: Bold Blue Red Peony Floral on Green Checker, Ribbed Base, Mid-Century Export Ceramic
$14.99
This is a vintage stackable ceramic coffee mug marked JAPAN, with a blue and red peony floral design on a lime green checkerboard band.
The exterior pattern is bright and intact, and no chips or cracks are visible on the rim, body, handle, or base. The interior shows tea or coffee staining on the bottom and lower walls, and there is light surface wear.
The lower body has a ribbed vertical texture that works as a stacking ring, and the handle is a simple C curve on a warm ivory body. JAPAN is impressed into the unglazed base, and it likely dates to the 1950s to 1970s export period.
Details
- Item: Stackable coffee mug
- Item Type: Transfer printed ceramic mug
- Era: Likely 1950s to 1970s; exact decade not confirmed
- Materials: Ceramic with transfer printed decoration; glossy glaze inside and out, unglazed base foot
- Color: Ivory body, lime green checker, cobalt blue and red floral, black leaf outlines
- Maker and Mark: JAPAN impressed into the unglazed base; no maker name visible
- Pattern or Model: Blue and red peony style floral on lime green checkerboard band
- Style: Mid century kitchen, colorful cottage shelf
- Dimensions: 3 inches across at the rim, 2.5 inches across at the base, 3 inches tall
- Special Features: Ribbed lower band works as a stacking ring
Condition Grade: Good
Positives
- Floral and checker pattern is bright and intact with no significant fading
- No chips or cracks visible on the rim, body, handle, or base
- Handle is secure with no cracks or repairs visible
Issues / Wear
- Tea or coffee staining on the interior bottom and lower walls
- Light surface wear from age and use
Please view the photos. Scroll in to judge the condition. This is the actual item you will be receiving.
This Japan stackable mug, with its blue and red peonies on lime green checker and its ribbed stacking base, suits a colorful kitchen shelf or a mid century mug collection. If it's the one you've been looking for, it's ready to come home.
- Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
- Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
Returns
You have 30 days from the delivery of the last item in your order to request a return. Items must come back in the condition they were sent, so please keep the original packaging and take photos before you open a package if it arrives damaged.
To start a return, email us at the address on your order confirmation. You are responsible for return shipping, and we recommend a tracked service, since we can only refund items that arrive back to us.
Refunds are issued to the original payment method within 5 business days of the item arriving back in the condition it was sent. Original shipping charges are not refunded.
Anything marked Final Sale cannot be returned.
Cancellations
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Questions buyers ask
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Every listing spells it out and shows it in photos. Chips, hairlines, crazing, worn plating, old repairs. If I did not mention it, it is not there.
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Yes. Every photo is the actual piece, taken by me. When it sells, it is gone.
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I note maker, mark, era, and measurements when I can confirm them, and say so plainly when I cannot. Unmarked pieces get dated by what the piece itself shows.
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