Sake Bottle
1800
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with brown glaze and underglaze iron decoration, 22 cm. H (8 11/16 in)
Credit Line
Bequest of Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore
Object Number
2005.118
A fine example of mingei or folkware, the bottle has a rolled lip, long neck, wide sloping shoulder, rounded lower body that angles sharply to the high foot; recessed glazed foot cavity. The glaze, grayish at the lip, fired predominantly to brown.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by bequest, 2005; Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore; Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts, Baltimore
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of art, "Across East Asia: China's Cultural & Artistic Legacy," October 30, 2019-December 31, 2023.
