Japanese Sake Bottle with Hand-painted Underglaze Blue Decoration antique norwegian souvenir sculptural hand thrown bowl is

sculptural hand thrown bowl is the perfect shade of green

It was my grandmother's

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It would look fantastic at the center of a table or on a sideboard holding a few huge white lilies

Japanese Sake Bottle with Hand-painted Underglaze Blue Decoration antique norwegian souvenir sculptural hand thrown bowl isI really love the lush unglaze blue decoration on this old porcelain Japanese Sake bottle or Tokkuri super loose and gestural, dense on the front and sparser on the reverse, and feeling to me both ancient and modern. The banded design around the shoulders of the bottle was done at a bit of a tilt, making me love it even more, as if its maker had a sake to two before embarking on their task! I've found a close match of this bottle that describes it as