- Manufactured by
- Noritake Co., Limited, Japanese, founded 1876
- Owned by
- Sinclair, Clayton, American
- Sinclair, Hazel, American
- Subject of
- Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
- Date
- ca. 1933
- Medium
- paint on leaf (metal) porcelain
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 2 1/8 × 4 5/16 × 3 11/16 in. (5.4 × 11 × 9.3 cm)
- Diameter: 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm)
- Description
- 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.
- Place collected
- Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
- Place made
- Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Asia
- Collection title
- The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Advertisements
- Type
- dinner services
- Topic
- Black Enterprise
- Black interiors
- Business
- Cooking and dining
- Craftsmanship
- Domestic life
- Ornamentation
- Recreation
- Segregation
- Travel
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
- Object number
- 2011.12.40.6.1-.9
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




