Tea Set oriental

Small but very well made Tea pot and 4 cups

Every piece has this hand signed mark , including inside the teapot lid , sorry if it's the wrong way round

Is the picture on the front of each piece transfer printed? - some can look blobby, giving the impression of being hand drawn, if they use a block stamp with different amounts of ink. Same with the 'signature'.

Tbh, there are a lot of hand decorated tea sets, artificially crackle glazed, being stocked by chain stores like Tiger. These look brand new - the wax resist 'flower' decoration is atypical of traditional pieces. Without a signed box and accompanying paperwork to say they are from a master potter I would treat them as new and from a chain store.

Naomi , Are you telling me Iv'e wasted my £1 on these   

£1?! You woz robbed.  

Nice little patio set. I'm sure you'll get your money's worth out of them in this weather.

  , I feel a profit coming on .

Looks like Japanese hand thrown factory produced to me.

Sounds a decent buy anyway, as the quality looks quite good.

The quality should be good. They've had a lot of practice.

Don't know about Japanese, though. The darker clay points more to Korea or Taiwan.

A lot of Japanese potters use dark clay?  

I think it's Japanese factory produced ware but at a very fair price despite being "one cup short of a set"!