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Japanese Agano Ware Tokkuri Sake Flask, Edo Period browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Stoneware: Pre 1900: item # 133520 Please refer to our stock # 2C-232A when inquiring.
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| Japanese Agano stoneware sake flask (“tokkuri”) with a rich crackled cream glaze and a thick bluish green copper glaze dripping about the shoulder. Ca. 1850. The foot is unglazed. The effect of the green glaze (“rokusho”) drip patterns is striking. Rokusho-nagashi is a form of overglaze decoration in which a bluish green glaze is applied over transparent glaze; the former runs over the transparent glaze during firing. This Edo period bottle comes from one of the folk kilns, most likely Agano, in the northeastern part of Kyushu. Agano ware was fired in various kilns until about the middle of the nineteenth century, but it is no longer made. Folk pottery consists of various kinds of domestic kitchen wares which possess a natural dignity that stems from the combination of the materials used to make and fire the pottery, the craftsman’s technical skill, and the use to which such pottery is put. Folk-craft products or “mingei,” of which this tokkuri 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 humble, unassuming and never pretentious. The qualities of beauty found in these objects are seen to derive from their having been made by craftsman working close to nature, using simple techniques and traditional styles. Condition is excellent, with only one tiny firing spot in the neck glaze. Dimensions: 8” high, 2 7/8” base diameter. | |||||||||
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