Sake flask

Description

Sake flask (suzu-tokkuri), porcelain, painting in underglaze blue depicting a coastal scene, and three patterned bands around the neck: Asia, East Asia, Japan, Tōhoku, Fukushima, Aizu-Hongō, 18th century

Museum reference

V.2022.191.106

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Sake flask

Production information

Aizuhongō-machi, Fukushima-ken, Japan, East Asia

Date

18th century

Style / Culture

Edo 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. 49

Catalogue for Ruthin Craft Centre Exhibition of Tōhoku pottery from the Hale Collection, Ruthin, Denbighshire, N. Wales, UK, March 30 – June 24, 2012, No. 16

Credit

The Anne and David Hale Collection of Tōhoku Ceramics