𝐊𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐢

Imari porcelain sake bottle with kintsugi gold lacquer restoration on the neck

Blue flowers decorate this collapsed porcelain bottle, produced in the Imari region on the island of Kyūshū. The collapse was the result of a firing accident in the kiln.

Such objects are normally destroyed, but in Japan they are sufficiently valued to be embellished with a kintsugi restoration.