Wine Bottle
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
These bottles were made at a time when Japan’s elite admired and collected the green-glazed ceramics of Song-dynasty China. Both of these Japanese-made pieces are close in shape to the Chinese meiping vase, with rounded shoulders and a short, narrow neck. While the dripping and patchiness of the glaze on both bottles would have been less desirable to a Chinese audience, Japanese collectors treasured and saved these pieces, suggesting that Japanese connoisseurs appreciated the beauty of uneven surfaces, even in the thirteenth century.
Caption
Wine Bottle, late 13th–early 14th century. Ko-Seto ware, stoneware with stamped and incised decoration covered with glaze, 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (26.7 x 16.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Anonymous gift, 78.204. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 78.204_PS9.jpg)
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Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Wine Bottle
Date
late 13th–early 14th century
Period
Kamakura Period
Geography
Place made: Japan
Medium
Ko-Seto ware, stoneware with stamped and incised decoration covered with glaze
Classification
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (26.7 x 16.5 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number
78.204
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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