Japanese Sake Bottle with Hand-painted Underglaze Blue Decoration capital dominoes Really a beautiful piece as

Really a beautiful piece as well as a very usable one

25ʺD × 4

with beautiful rounded lip

I've only recently learned that carved wooden "whimsies" like this one are a thing

a version of which is featured in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum

Japanese Sake Bottle with Hand-painted Underglaze Blue Decoration capital dominoes Really a beautiful piece asI 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