A CONTEMPORARY FLASK

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A CONTEMPORARY FLASK
20TH CENTURY, HAMADA SHOJI (1894-1978)

Of rectangular section with tapered square neck ending in an everted square rim, decorated with a wax resist flower spray on each of the larger sides and covered with a persimmon glaze ending above the flat base and with a blue-green glaze on each of the four edges, in wood tomobako inscribed under the lid kakigusuri nuki-e aosashi henko "persimmon-glazed wax resist blue-green flask", signed Shoji and sealed sho- 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high