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Crane Neck Sake Bottle with Scholar Drinking Leaf Tea; Chinese Poem19th century

Not on view
Ceramic bottle vase with rounded body and long narrow neck, decorated in cobalt blue with two figures seated among rocks and a bare tree
Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Crane Neck Sake Bottle with Scholar Drinking Leaf Tea; Chinese Poem
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
19th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868) or Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Hirado Mikawachi ware; porcelain with blue underglaze
Dimensions
8 3/8 x 3 7/8 in. (21.2 x 9.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Allan and Maxine Kurtzman
Accession Number
AC1997.273.50
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Singer, Robert; Hollis Goodall. Hirado Porcelain of Japan: From the Kurtzman Family Collection.
    Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997.