Japanese Sake Bottle with Hand-painted Underglaze Blue Decoration capital dominoes Very good condition

Very good condition

Really a beautiful piece as well as a very usable one

with beautiful rounded lip

it seems to nod to old salt glazed jugs

25ʺD × 4

Japanese Sake Bottle with Hand-painted Underglaze Blue Decoration capital dominoes Very good conditionI 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