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Sake Bottle with Three Figures
late 1700s
(1615–1868)
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.a
Location: not on view
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.- (N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, 1961.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 156, no. 160
- Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236); April 19, 2013 - December 24, 2013Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113); March 18 - November 17, 2004.Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113); February 20 - May 6, 2003.Cleveland Museum of Art (7/5–9/2/1990): “The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection”Cleveland Museum of Art (6/30–9/5/1982): “The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art”
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