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Object Name2 Sakazuki Decanters and 5 Piece Sakazuki Cup Set

Manufacturer Satsuma Clan Factory

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1857

TechniqueBlown, cased, cut

Size(AB) Decanters with Stoppers H (max): 25.4 cm, Diam (max): 7.9 cm; (C) Cup Set H: 15.9 cm, Diam: 11.9 cm

Accession Number55.6.18

Credit LineGift of Asahi Glass Company

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Place Made

Japan, Kyushu-chiho, Kagoshima, Shuseikan

Physical Description(AB) Clear glass with blue overlay; free blown, cased and cut; 2 decanters: pear-shaped body with straight walls and flat base, slender almost cylindrical neck with flaring rim; conical stoppers with flattened knop surmounted by a heavy disk finial; both heavily cut in a diamond pattern; the knop of the stopper is blue, the disk is scalloped and cut on top in a diamond star. (C) Colorless glass with dark-blue overlay, lead glass; blown, partially cased and cut. Three cups, graduated in size; identical flared bowl shapes; colorless rims; blue overlay of bowls cut in cross-hatched diamond shapes, with uncut blue between bowls and slightly out-flared, colorless foot rims; level bases; two-part glass stand for the nested cups: supporting the cups, a saucer-like form with loped edge of colorless glass rimmed with blue, surmounting a band of closely cross-hatched blue overlay and a collar-like foot of blue flanked by narrow bands of colorless glass; a three-footed pedestal base, with rounded disk of blue glass curving inward and downward to an opening into which part of the stand fits; below; two narrow bands of colorless glass flanking one of blue; a band of diamond shapes cut in blue glass and cross-hatched; the whole terminating in a tripartite foot of arched forms of plain colorless glass, each incased with five incised, horizontal lines, terminating in dark-blue lobed feet.
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