A sake bottle (tokkuri). Chōsen-Karatsu. Hizen Province (Kyūshū).

A sake bottle (tokkuri). Chōsen-Karatsu. Hizen Province (Kyūshū). Early Edo period, 17th century Of ovoid shape with a slender neck and a funnel-shaped mouth, on a flat base. Hard brown clay covered with a blackish-brown iron-oxide glaze, leaving parts of the lower body and the base exposed; extending from the rim to the inside and outside a partly streaky, whitish rice-husk ash glaze (warabai) with varying degrees of crackle, running down the body in streaks. Cotton cloth. Modern wooden box. Height 20.7

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