Antique Japanese Grey Glazed Stoneware Tokkuri Sake Jug Iron Black Merchant Calligraphy Meiji 10"H Cranes Measures: 70" wide by 60"

Measures: 70" wide by 60" tall

Two applied side ring handles add a traditional utilitarian form element

Thatched farmhouses heavy with snow fill the middle ground

continuing the sense of coiled movement and elemental energy

Antique Japanese Grey Glazed Stoneware Tokkuri Sake Jug Iron Black Merchant Calligraphy Meiji 10"H Cranes Measures: 70" wide by 60"Antique Japanese Grey Glazed Stoneware Tokkuri Sake Jug Iron Black Merchant Calligraphy Meiji 10"H Japan Late Edo to Meiji Period, 19th century A grey glazed stoneware tokkuri () of sturdy proportions, carrying a single large boldly brushed iron black underglaze character dominating the front face, with secondary calligraphic text below a merchant or brewery mark rendered with the directness and confidence characteristic of commercial ceramics of the