Description A GLAZED CERAMIC SAKE BOTTLE, EDO PERIODJapan, Edo period (1615-1868). The ribbed tubular body rising from a flat round foot to a tapering neck and flaring mouth, covered overall in a finely crackled beige glaze decorated with alternating light-blue and dark vertical lines, the base unglazed. Together with a black glazed ceramic chawan dating to the first half of the 20th century.Condition: With minor wear and firing flaws, the rims with a finely executed kintsugi repair.Provenance: Family collection of either Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) or his son-in-law Louis (Loek) Borensztajn (1935-2021), Netherlands. Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) was an architect, art collector, dealer, and founder of the first Museum of Japanese Art in the Middle East. He became one of the world's leading collectors of Japanese art, starting at the age of 18, and continued to collect and work as an art dealer in Berlin in the 1920s. In the 1930s Felix Tikotin fled from the Nazis and hid his collection in the Netherlands. After the war, he decided that his collection should be taken to Israel, where in 1959 and with the help of Abba Hushi, who was the mayor of Haifa, The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art was established. The Museum's collection comprises more than 8,000 items of art and crafts.Weight: 200 gDimensions: Height 17 cm