Tokkuri or table decanter for sake in a tapering, conical form with a slightly everted lip. Of Kirigome Ware porcelain glazed in clouding eggplant and turquoise. From the Kirigome kiln in Miyazaki Town, Miyagi Prefecture. Edo period, early 19th century.

For other examples of Kirigome porcelains, c.f. the Tohoku Ceramic Museum’s catalogue Ceramics of the Tohoku Region Since the Edo Period, numbers 1 – 9.

A very rare and particularly beautiful example of this type of Tohoku ceramic ware.