Japanese Sake Bottle with Hand-painted Underglaze Blue Decoration antique norwegian souvenir is a story

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Japanese Sake Bottle with Hand-painted Underglaze Blue Decoration antique norwegian souvenir is a storyI 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