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BIZEN WARE, MOMOYAMA PERIOD (EARLY 17TH CENTURY)
Details
A Stoneware Sake Bottle (Tokkuri)
Bizen Ware, Momoyama period (early 17th century)
The pear-shaped bottle with a rolled rim, the body a reddish brown color around the neck and grey-brown around the body and splashed with an olive-green natural-ash glaze, some surface encrustation and surface eruptions
8 1/8in. (20.5cm.) high
With two wood boxes, the first inscribed Bizen tokkuri on paper label
Bizen Ware, Momoyama period (early 17th century)
The pear-shaped bottle with a rolled rim, the body a reddish brown color around the neck and grey-brown around the body and splashed with an olive-green natural-ash glaze, some surface encrustation and surface eruptions
8 1/8in. (20.5cm.) high
With two wood boxes, the first inscribed Bizen tokkuri on paper label
Provenance
Okaya family