Have a Cup of Spring
This cup and saucer set features beautiful pink roses and rosebuds at the center of each piece, contrasting against the stark white porcelain background. The cup has a gilded, reticulated base and gilded rim, with a unique gilded handle in a double cut and spiked design. The matching saucer features a reticulated and gilded rim as well.
Manufactured in Japan in the late 1940s, the otherwise blank porcelain was purchased with the intent for hand painted decoration. The set would end up at the Convent and Academy of Dominican Sisters in Fall River. Sister Mary Carmel was the artist of the cheerful roses; she specialized in china painting and taught art at the Dominican Academy for decades, encouraging her young students on their artistic endeavors.
Perhaps this teacup and saucer were used as an example to her students during their own porcelain painting!