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In 1867 Ichizaemon Morimura established Morimura-kumi, which was a Japanese exporting company, based in Tokyo. Some years later he opened a factory in Nagoya, Japan producing fine china. This was to become the Nippon Toki Kaisha Ltd., which was the forerunner to Noritake. Despite suffering major damage at the Noritake factory during World War II, Noritake, renamed Noritake Company Limited in 1982, is today a thriving success, exporting fine china all around the world and particularly to the USA.
The objective of this gallery is to display photographs of the many discontinued designs from the Noritake factory. The gallery will include retired tableware, collectibles and giftware. We hope that this will serve as a useful point of reference for those people trying to identify their obsolete dinner sets, tea services and collectables.
Due to the number of discontinued lines and therefore images it has been necessary to place the images under their corresponding first letter to reduce download time. So if you do not know the first letter of your discontinued design name, we are afraid it's a case of searching through.
Should you see a flashing lightbulb like the one below, then there is a special offer on the Noritake crockery you are viewing. Clicking on the lightbulb will take you directly to our Special Offers page.
Development of these pages is on ongoing project so keep checking back.
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