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Sake Bottle

1800-1899

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Sake Bottle

Sake Bottle

1800-1899

Physical Qualities Stoneware with brown glaze and underglaze iron decoration, 22 cm. H (8 11/16 in)

Credit Line Bequest of Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore

Object Number 2005.118

Stoneware with ash glaze and underglaze iron decoration The origin of this sake bottle, decorated with a ship at sail, is unknown. Although Japan is not a large country, its mountainous topography led to many localized potteries. Not all received national recognition, survived, or were recorded.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, by bequest, 2005; Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore; Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore

Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of art, "Across East Asia: China's Cultural & Artistic Legacy," October 30, 2019-December 31, 2023.

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