Wine Bottle with Three Friends of Winter

Japan

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The detailed and dense patterning characterizes the Chinese porcelains of the mid-seventeenth century that are known as shonzui ware in Japan. The term shonzui remains enigmatic but is thought to refer to a Japanese man, perhaps the person who first commissioned such works from China.

Wine Bottle with Three Friends of Winter, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze , Japan

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