In front of you is a 100-year-old "Japanese" coffee-tea service belonging to the Kaunas intelligentsia Elena Varašytė-Jocaitienė, wife of the writer, journalist and translator Victoras Jocaitis. This cast porcelain service consists of 15 pieces: a teapot/teapot, a sugar bowl, a jug for milk or cream, 6 cups and 6 saucers. It is likely that this service is a stylized copy of the tea services produced by the Japanese porcelain company Eisho in Europe. The moderate gilding, the many Japanese motifs and the obscure hieroglyphs on the bottom of each dish must have convinced the buyer that this was a genuine product from far-away Japan, and that it was well worth the high price paid for it. There is no precise information on how and when this service arrived in Lithuania - it is only speculative. One assumption is that the Varashi family bought it in Kaunas. Another is that the painter Steponas Varashi brought it as a gift to his sister Elena when he was studying painting in Paris, Rome and Florence between 1924 and 1937 (with interruptions).