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On display at V&A South Kensington
Japan, Room 45, The Toshiba Gallery

Bottle

1700-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sake bottle, stoneware painted in enamel colours over a crackled brownish glaze. Double-gourd shape with small mouth. Painted with bamboos and pine trees below a band of scrolled foliage; round the mouth petal-shaped compartments outlined in gold and painted alternately red on green and green on blue.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware painted in enamel colours and gilding over a crackled brownish glaze
Brief description
Sake bottle, stoneware painted in enamel colours and gilding over a crackled brownish glaze; Kiyomizu ware, Kyoto, Japan, Edo period, 18th century
Physical description
Sake bottle, stoneware painted in enamel colours over a crackled brownish glaze. Double-gourd shape with small mouth. Painted with bamboos and pine trees below a band of scrolled foliage; round the mouth petal-shaped compartments outlined in gold and painted alternately red on green and green on blue.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.4cm
  • Diameter: 11.7cm
Style
Gallery label
  • Gourd-shaped Bottle Stoneware with crackled buff glaze and decoration in overglaze enamels and gilt Bamboo and pine Maker's mark impressed on base Kyoto kilns About 1700-1800 C.1266-1917 Florence Bequest(1986)
  • Bottle in the shape of a double gourd Kyoto kilns Glazed stoneware painted in overglaze enamels and gilt 1700-1800 V&A C.1266-1917 Florence Bequest (December 2014)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Henry L. Florence
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.1266-1917

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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