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Sake Bottle with Three Figures

late 1700s
(1615-1868)
porcelain with overglaze enamel and gold decoration (Hizen ware, Arita type)
Diameter: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.); with cover: 27.2 cm (10 11/16 in.); without cover: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.272
Location: not on view
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Description

The bottle features three elegantly drawn figures: a beautiful woman, a young man, and a priest. The artist used a fine-haired brush to draw these figures in colored enamel onto the porcelain bottle, which had already been given a clear glaze. A final firing fused the enamel to the form. The name derives from the port of Imari from where Japanese porcelains were shipped to other cities in Japan, China, and Europe.
Sake Bottle with Three Figures

Sake Bottle with Three Figures

late 1700s

Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)

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