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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Sake Bottle

ca. 1800-1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sake bottle of porcelain with yellow, brown, blue and clear glazes. In the form of Hotei (God of Contentment), seated on the ground and the neck of a sack over his shoulder.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with coloured glazes
Brief description
Sake bottle, porcelain with yellow, brown, blue and clear glazes; Japan, possibly Hirado kilns, Edo period, ca. 1800-50
Physical description
Sake bottle of porcelain with yellow, brown, blue and clear glazes. In the form of Hotei (God of Contentment), seated on the ground and the neck of a sack over his shoulder.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.3cm
  • Length: 18.4cm
Styles
Object history
Purchased from the Japanese Commissioners for the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876, accessioned in 1877. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project.
Subject depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
Augustus Wollaston Franks and M. Shioda, Japanese Pottery. [London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1880. South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks; 18. Catalogue number 201
Collection
Accession number
359-1877

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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