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Sake bottle with flaring mouth and design of crane
Japanese
Edo period
first half of the 19th century
Medium/Technique
Tamba ware; Tachikui ware stoneware with over-decoration
Dimensions
Ceramics: 5.8 × 4 × 18 cm (2 5/16 × 1 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Morse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number92.4955
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ProvenanceBy the 1870s, Ninagawa Noritane (b. 1835 – d. 1882), Tokyo, Japan; before 1882, probably sold by Ninagawa to Francis Brinkley (b. 1841 – d. 1912), Tokyo; 1886, sold by Brinkley, through Edward Greey (dealer; b. 1835 – d. 1888), New York [see note 1], possibly to Edward Sylvester Morse (b. 1838 – d. 1925); Boston [see note 2]; 1892, sold by Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1892)
NOTES:
[1] The Brinkley collection was exhibited and sold by Edward Greey. Greey lent this object, on Brinkley’s behalf, to the MFA from June until December 1885. See Description of a Collection of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Porcelain, Pottery and Faience made by Captain F. Brinkley (Edward Greey, New York, 1885), cat. no. 408.
[2] According to Edward Sylvester Morse, “Five Originals of Ninagawa’s Work,” Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin 23, no. 136 (1925), 12, he purchased either MFA accession no. 92.4955 or 92.4956 at the Greey sale. The other was purchased by a Costa Rican minister, but Morse subsequently acquired it and sold it to the MFA along with its mate.
NOTES:
[1] The Brinkley collection was exhibited and sold by Edward Greey. Greey lent this object, on Brinkley’s behalf, to the MFA from June until December 1885. See Description of a Collection of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Porcelain, Pottery and Faience made by Captain F. Brinkley (Edward Greey, New York, 1885), cat. no. 408.
[2] According to Edward Sylvester Morse, “Five Originals of Ninagawa’s Work,” Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin 23, no. 136 (1925), 12, he purchased either MFA accession no. 92.4955 or 92.4956 at the Greey sale. The other was purchased by a Costa Rican minister, but Morse subsequently acquired it and sold it to the MFA along with its mate.