Sake flask

Description

Sake flask (tokkuri), porcelain with a blue underglaze bamboo and rock design, with clouds in a band above: Asia, East Asia, Japan, Tōhoku, Miyagi, Kirigome kiln, 19th century

Museum reference

V.2022.191.2

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Sake flask

Production information

Kirigome, Kiln
Miyagi-ken, Japan, East Asia

Date

19th century

Style / Culture

Edo period, Japanese
Meiji period, Japanese

Materials

Porcelain, Glaze, Pigment

References

Tōhoku no Yakimono, by David Hale, with Foreword by Prof. Fujio Koyama, pub. Yuzan Kaku, Tōkyō, 1974 (in Japanese translation), Bl.&Wh. Plate No. 36, left

Catalogue for Ruthin Craft Centre Exhibition of Tōhoku pottery from the Hale Collection, Ruthin, Denbighshire, N. Wales, UK, March 30 – June 24, 2012, No. 01

Credit

The Anne and David Hale Collection of Tōhoku Ceramics