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    "localId": "447710",
    "label": "Vase with Dragon Roundels",
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    "id": "447710",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Vase with Dragon Roundels",
    "description": "Each side of this lavender-colored vase is nearly covered with a low-relief design of a four-clawed dragon curled around a flaming jewel. The box lid carries an attestation by Yohei IV that the vase was produced by his predecessor, and the signature on the base is one Yohei III used later in his career. The lid also makes reference to Jun (J. Kin) ware, which was made in numerous kilns in what is now Yuzhou or Yuxian in Henan Province, China, during the Northern Song dynasty. Some Jun wares had an opalescent purple glaze, which was clearly the inspiration for the color seen on this vase.",
    "date": "1900–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.236",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.236/2022.236_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.236/2022.236_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.); Diameter: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.236"
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    "tec": "Porcelain with purple glaze and molded and carved design",
    "tombstone": "Vase with Dragon Roundels, 1900–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with purple glaze and molded and carved design; height: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.); diameter: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.236",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "“Seifū” inscribed on the base。 The signature's style is typical of Yohei III's later career.",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "成山清風",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the inside of the box lid: “Seizan Seifū.”",
            "inscription_remark": "The inside of the box lid also carries an attestation by Yohei IV that the vase was produced by his predecessor.",
            "sortorder": 2
        },
        {
            "inscription": "The top of the box lid describes the vase.",
            "sortorder": 3
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Kyoto-based Japanese ceramist Seifū Yohei III (1851–1914) admired the glaze colors found on Chinese porcelain and tried to replicate them through intensive experimentation.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 94, pp. 4 and 184"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.236",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:01:38.337000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.236/2022.236_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 447710,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with purple glaze and molded and carved design",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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