Physical Qualities
Earthenware with purple-brown, dark blue, light and dark green, and yellow glazes, 5 3/8 x 2 7/8 x 2 3/4 in. (13.6 x 7.3 x 7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dow Berggren, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
2007.323
Small sake bottle with everted rim, short and narrow neck, and body shaped into quadrangle; opposite sides of the body are decorated with large crysanthemum blossoms (purple on one side and dark blue on the opposite), with green leaves and stems; against a yellow ground filled with regularly placed small open circles; the glaze having pulled away from the lip creating a "temmoku" effect where the brown pigment oxidized in firing.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2007; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dow Berggren, Bethesda, Maryland
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Poetic Imagery of Japanese Art," February 22-August 8, 2010. (Levy Rotation)
Markings: On bottom: "Kutani"
