Bottle with Decoration of Pine Tree

Japan

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This robust bottle belongs to a type of stoneware from the Takeo kilns that is defined by the use of white slip over nearly the entire vessel; iron-painted designs; a copper-green glaze that accentuates certain elements (such as the foliage); and the overall application of a transparent glaze. As with Joseon buncheong, the white slip not only makes a pleasing decoration in itself but creates an arresting contrast to the dark clay body. The use of copper-green glaze as a design element was undoubtedly inspired by the popular Oribe-style ceramics produced at the Mino kilns in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Bottle with Decoration of Pine Tree, Stoneware with iron-painted design and copper-green glaze over brushed white slip (Takeo Karatsu ware), Japan

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Bottle with Decoration of Pine Tree, Stoneware with iron-painted design and copper-green glaze over brushed white slip (Takeo Karatsu ware), Japan
Bottle with Decoration of Pine Tree, Stoneware with iron-painted design and copper-green glaze over brushed white slip (Takeo Karatsu ware), Japan
Bottle with Decoration of Pine Tree, Stoneware with iron-painted design and copper-green glaze over brushed white slip (Takeo Karatsu ware), Japan
Bottle with Decoration of Pine Tree, Stoneware with iron-painted design and copper-green glaze over brushed white slip (Takeo Karatsu ware), Japan
Bottle with Decoration of Pine Tree, Stoneware with iron-painted design and copper-green glaze over brushed white slip (Takeo Karatsu ware), Japan

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