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Someone call Shirloc Holmes!

For an early gift, one of my girlfreinds (I call all my close female friends girlfreinds it has no sexual connotation at all) received an antique sake set. Most of the items are readily identifiable but a few of them allude definition by me and by her. It looks as if though some of the pieces are from a totally different set with a totally different purpose so I snapped a photo with her camera, sent it to my computer. The pieces that are missing the white stripes on the bottom are the unknowns, can anyone on NSG please help me with what these items are, and a purpose if its not easily divined from the name.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/SaintB/Phonepic101.jpg

They simply seem to be different flask forms.

You can see the range here: http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/flask-shapes.htm

Resident expert and I agree that doesn't appear to be a Japanese sake set, but rather a Chinese set.

I'd assume the taller one to be a vase and the one with a lid to be a container for something, possibly sweets.

Resident expert and I agree that doesn't appear to be a Japanese sake set, but rather a Chinese set.

I'd assume the taller one to be a vase and the one with a lid to be a container for something, possibly sweets.

Of course, those two might be from a tea set, not a sake set.

left one for cold Sake/ right one for hot sake. center is for Sochu.