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    "localId": "447765",
    "label": "Sweets Bowl",
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    "id": "447765",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sweets Bowl",
    "description": "Seifū Yohei III was the most prominent head of a ceramics studio in Kyoto that specialized in Chinese-style porcelains and especially items for use in <em>sencha</em> (煎茶), or the drinking of steeped-leaf tea with companions. Sencha was popular among the <em>bunjin</em> of Kyoto and Osaka, who often enjoyed it as part of their emulation of Chinese culture. While sencha was by design less formal than the Japanese tea ceremony, it still featured the display of treasured objects. Prized Chinese antiquities were generally unobtainable, so substitutes such as the <em>Gu-Shaped Flower Vase, </em><a href=\"https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.224\"><u>CMA 2022.224</u></a>, were much in demand. Bowls for distributing sweets, like this one, were also a staple of sencha gatherings.",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.195",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.195/2022.195_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.195/2022.195_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); Diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.195"
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    "tec": "Glazed porcelain",
    "tombstone": "Sweets Bowl (本窯璜玓磁菓子鉢), 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Glazed porcelain; height: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); diameter: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.195",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "本窯璜玓磁菓子鉢",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "“Seifū” inscribed on the base.",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "金聲玉振",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the lid: “kinsei gyokushin”",
            "sortorder": 2
        },
        {
            "inscription": "帝室技芸員",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal and inscription on the inside of the lid: Imperial Household Artist “Teishitsu gigei’in”",
            "sortorder": 3
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Names for the glazes, written in ink with a brush on the lids of the custom-made storage boxes for the works, often indicate a specific glaze or ware that had inspired Seifū Yohei III.",
    "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."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.195",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 11:45:48.069000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.195/2022.195_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 447765,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Glazed porcelain",
    "creatorTags": [
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)",
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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