Sue ware: bird-shaped vase

Sue ware, bird-shaped vase
Sue ware: bird-shaped vase
Sue ware: bird-shaped vase

Excavated from Okudayama, Takada-gun, Hiroshima
7th century
Height 11.2cm, Mouth diameter 4.9cm, Body diameter 8.1 x 19.9cm
Tokyo National Museum
 This is a long and slender version of a flat bottle with the neck of the mouth resembling a head, with two legs in the front and one in the back on the bottom. The back is decorated with a comb pattern on the mid-axis line and painted feathers on both sides of the comb pattern. The tail is pointed slightly upward.

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