Sake flask

Description

Sake flask (tokkuri), stoneware with a grey glaze and overglaze iron-oxide painted horse, brush-marked inside the footrim 'Dantai': Asia, East Asia, Japan, Tōhoku, Fukushima, Obori kiln, 19th century

Museum reference

V.2022.191.60

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Sake flask

Production information

Obori, Kiln
Fukushima-ken, Japan, East Asia

Date

19th century

Style / Culture

Edo period, Japanese
Meiji period, Japanese

Materials

Stoneware, Glaze

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. 84

Catalogue for Ruthin Craft Centre Exhibition of Tōhoku pottery from the Hale Collection, Ruthin, Denbighshire, N. Wales, UK, March 30 – June 24, 2012, No. 12

Credit

The Anne and David Hale Collection of Tōhoku Ceramics