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Wine Bottle | musefully
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). Anonymous gift, 78.204. Creative Commons-BY.
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.