Sake gourd bottle and cup. The bottle is nodular in appears and the cup is shaped like a gourd cut in half . This is attached to bottle by a double red silk cord which goes through the horn ring at top, which screws into the top of the bottle, and around the 'waist' of the gourd bottle and ends in a tassel. Shaped in segments by tying during growth

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
24.56
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
bottle: 140 mm x 115 mm; bottle: 145 mm x 120 mm; cup: 28 mm x 75 mm x 45 mm
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