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A COLORED LACQUER SAKE FLASK (TOKKURI)
edo period (19th century), signed bunsai and with kakihan
Designed in the form of a seated red-haired Shojo with gold body seated in black robes patterned with gold wave-crests and red and gold maple leaves, the left hand holding upright an overturned, oversized red sake cup and the right hand holding the gold cord attached to a red double-gourd flask, the gold stopper of which serves as the stopper for the entire vessel, base roiro-nuri, signed in gold lacquer on the base of the sake cup--8in. (20.3cm.) high
edo period (19th century), signed bunsai and with kakihan
Designed in the form of a seated red-haired Shojo with gold body seated in black robes patterned with gold wave-crests and red and gold maple leaves, the left hand holding upright an overturned, oversized red sake cup and the right hand holding the gold cord attached to a red double-gourd flask, the gold stopper of which serves as the stopper for the entire vessel, base roiro-nuri, signed in gold lacquer on the base of the sake cup--8in. (20.3cm.) high