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Japanese Candle-Shaped Ceramic Sake Bottle browse these categories for related items... All Items: Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware: Pre 1920: item #60069 Please refer to our stock #2C-229 when inquiring.
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| This unusual candle-shaped sake bottle or “rosoku-tokkuri,” which is covered with a deep dark brown glaze, is an example of Tachikui/Tamba ware. Meiji/Taisho period. Unglazed calligraphic symbols, drawn with a wax resist, surround the square-shouldered body of the bottle. The village of Tachikui, located in an isolated mountain region of northern Hyogo Prefecture, is the last pottery village in Tamba. The dominant color of the Tachikui wares is a rich deep brown. (Our enlargement photos 6 and 7 show the true color.) A large variety of utilitarian ceramics were produced there, the most striking of which is the “candle bottle,” so named because its shape resembles that of an old Japanese candle. They are graceful in form and have a particularly fine glaze on a brown body with some of the clay showing through. (See “The Folk Arts of Japan” by Hugo Munsterberg, Plate 25, for a similar example.) Folk-craft products or “mingei,” of which this sake bottle is representative, are objects used by common people. These commonplace, functional artifacts are endowed with a beauty directly connected with their utility – a beauty that is simple, humble and unassuming. Condition is excellent, with only a few minor kiln spots. Ex. collection Brooklyn Museum. Overall dimensions: 7” high, 3 ˝” diameter at shoulder. | ||||||||||
