New Year's Guinomi (big gulp) Sake Cup Painted with Chinese Characters Artist: Toyoba Seiya (Japanese, born 1942)

Medium

Stoneware with white glaze over Chinese characters

Dimensions

2 × 2 in. (5.1 × 5.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S

Accession Number

2001.43.7

Geography
Culture
Period

Heisei era (1989–2019)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Molly Bareiss (1920–2006), and Walter Bareiss (1919–2007), Greenwich, Conn.; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001
Bibliography
  • Sadako Ohki, Twentieth-Century Japanese Ceramics at the Yale University Art Gallery: The Collections of Molly and Water Bareiss, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 9, 15, no. 31, fig. 31
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Additional information

Object/Work type

stoneware

Signed

A Toyoba's seal impression looking like a pound sign # can be seen close to the bottom edge of the cup body to the right of the character flower.

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