Imported lithophane tea set includes Tea Pot, sugar & creamer, 4 cups, saucers and dessert plates. Cups are 3-5/8" dia w/gold rim, handle and gold ring around beautiful geisha lithophane. Saucers are 5-1/2", dessert plates are 7-1/2" both w/gold rims. Tea pot w/lid includes internal strainer, is 6-1/4" tall, 8-3/4" from spout tip to handle tip and is 15" in dia. Has gold trim on spout, lid and handle. Sugar bowl w/lid is 5-1/8" tall, 6-1/4" from handle to handle and 12-3/4" dia. Gold trim on handles and lid. Cream Pitcher is 3-1/2" tall, 5" from spout to handle and 11" dia. Gold trim on top and handle. All pieces have scene that includes water, foliage, bamboo trees, birds, mountain and raised hand painted white flowers. Each piece, with exception of cups, is marked with makers mark. Cups have beautiful lithophane of geisha in the bottom. No chips or cracks on any pieces.

This looks to be a very old vase to me. The glaze looks old. everything about it looks like its been around for a lot of years. Darker around the top like it was baked to long or somthing. I dont know. It Looked pitiful in the junk store so I bought it. It rocks a bit when you set it on a table. Not very streight on the bottom. Cream color. Not as white as it apears in the pics. Around the top is a little darker then the rest of it. There is seam marks on the sides just under the handles and above so must be pressed. There is a number I can barley make out on the bottom. I think its 447/ its hard to see. Then something that may be a mark or just a tiny place where the glaze is worn. The glaze is on the bottom as well just not around the edges that would set on the table. The relief on the front is raised. not sure what it is. looks like a urn or lamp wiith two handles and beads draping and hanging down. I just would like to know something about it. Im wondering who would make such a small unatractive pitiful little thing.

i have had this for about 12 years but it is not run down or anything  kept good care off it maybe a few nicks or dents but not very noticibe 

I I say it's in fair condition, because of the broken mirrors, other than that the wood is in good condtion. The brass lock plates are dented up. Grandma lived in world of leaving her door unlocked and many times this was attempted to break in, since grandma kept her money in it. The locks are still good, just dented the plates trying to pry them.. In looking at the pictures, this does need a good wipe down. I keep it stored in a backroom that gets neglected from dusting. I do use it. But have always been curious about it. I haven't a clue as to a style, age or anything.

AN ORDINANCE

To dissolve the Union between the State of Alabama and other states
united under the compact style " The Constitution of
the United States of America."
_____________________________

Whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to the offices of
President of the United States of America,by a sectional party,avonedly hostile to the
domestic institutions and to the peace and security of the people of the State of Alabama,
preceded by many anddanderous infractions of the Constition of the United States, by many
of the States and people of the Northern section, is a political wrong of so insulting and
menacing a character as to justify the People of the State of Alabama in Convention
assembled, That the State of Alabama in Convention assembled, That the State of Alabama now
withdraws, and is hereby withdrawn from the Union known as " The United States of America,"
and henceforth ceases to the one of said United States, and is and of right ought to be a
Sovereign and Independent State.

Sec.2. Be it further declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in
Convention assembled, "That all the powers over the Territory of said State and over the
people thereof,heretofore delegate to the Government of the United States of America,be and
they are hereby withdrawn from the government and are hereby resumed and vested in the
People of the State of Alabama_____And as it is the desire and purpose of the People of
Alabama to meet the Slaveholding States of the South, who may approve such purpose, in
order to frame a Provisional as well as permanent Government upon the principal of the
Constitution of the United States_______Be it resolved by the people of Alabama in
Convention assembled, That the people of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,North
Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, be and are hereby invited to meet the people of the
State of Alabama, by their Delegates, in the Convention, on the Fourth day of February
A.D. 1864, at the City of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the porpose of consulting
with each other as to the most effectual mode od securing converted and harmonious action
in whatever measures maybe deemed most desirable for are common peace and seurity.

And be further resolved, That the President of this Convention, be and is hereby
instructed to transmit forthwith a copy of the foregoing Preamble,Ordinance and Resolutions
to the Governors of the several States named in said resolutions_______Done by the People
of the State of Alabama, in Convention assembled, Montgomery, on the Eleventh day of
January, A.D. 1861.

William M. Brooks W.L.Yancey Eli W. Starke John W. Inzer
President of the Convention A.A. Coleman Albert Crumpler H.E. Owens
J.D. Webb Jere Clemens M.G. Slaughter
Tho. H. Herndon George Taylor N.D. Johnson
A.J Curtis S.E. Catterlin John B Leonard Joseph Silver
Alpheus Baker David P. Lewis James S Williamson James F. Bailey
W.H. Davis James S Clark j McClanahan Julius C.B. Mitchell
John Cochran Lyman Gibbons John Tyler Morgan WM S Earnest
John W. L. Daniel jAMES W. Crawford Jas G Hawkins David B Creech
Lewis M. Stone William H. Barnes J P Timberlake of Jackson DeWitt Clinton Davis
E S Dargan WM. S. Phillips Gappa T. Yelverton Richard Jackson Wood
John Bragg George Rives Sr Thomas Tipton Smith JEFN Buford
H.G. Humphries James g. Gilchrist John Green Sr
Geo. A. Ketchum Archibald Rhea Barclay JM Foster
O.R. Blue G.C. WHATLEY Davis William A.Wood
James L. Sheffield Dane t RYAN John P. Ralls MD Arthur Campbell Beard
James Ferguson Dowdell J.M. Crook W E Clarke of Marengo
Franklin K. Beck Saml Henderson Ralph O Howard
Sam. J. Bolling OS Jewett George Forrester
Jno McPherson John R. Coffey Henry M. Gray
A.P. Love
J.A. Henderson A true copy from
B H Baker the original
Geo. D. Shortridge R.H. Brittan
Thomas Hill Watts Sec. of State
A G Horn Secretary of the Convention Frank L. Smith, of Montgomery
Assistant Secretary of the Convention

Lith.by A.Hoen & Co Balto.

This piece is a real mystery to our family. We know it came to the US with my grandmother from Glamis, Scotland in 1920. There were originally two, but nobody in the family knows what happened to the other one. I inherited this from my mother's estate. This is a huge piece - 27" tall and 17" wide. It weighs 10 pounds. Now for the mystery part...there isn't a single mark anywhere - no hallmarks, no maker's mark. It is surprisingly light for its size. I don't believe it is sterling. It breaks down into two pieces. I have had this appraised more than 5 times, and not one appraiser could tell me where it came from or how old it is. There are three main themes - lions, snakes and soldiers with helmets. My daughter noted that the lions look just like the lions on the Scottish flag. Does anyone know what this is and/or its value?