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Mino or Inuyama ware sake bottle
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Mino or Inuyama ware sake bottle

1850-1868 · Stoneware with ash glaze

From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Light brown clay, stained unevenly under glaze by sake. Hand-formed rim; two thumb indentations in midbody on opposite sides. Ash glaze, mottled, yellow-green where thick, stained brown in coarse crackle; glaze wiped off base, leaving thin orange film of glaze and pool of glaze in concave center of base.

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own description
Credit lineMino or Inuyama ware sake bottle. 1850-1868. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.

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