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    "localId": "448349",
    "label": "Sweets Bowl",
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    "id": "448349",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sweets Bowl",
    "description": "The box for this sweets bowl has an attestation by Yohei IV that it is a work by Yohei III and in the <em>hisokuyō </em>(C. <em>mise yao</em>), or “mysterious color ware,” style. In fact, as actual examples of <em>mise </em>ware were unknown in Yohei III’s time, he would have associated the color with the green-glazed ceramics of kilns at Longquan, also in Zhejiang Province, produced during the Yuan dynasty.",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.232",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.232/2022.232_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.232/2022.232_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "h.: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); diam.: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.232"
}

{
    "tec": "Porcelain with green glaze",
    "tombstone": "Sweets Bowl, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with green glaze; h.: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); diam.: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.232",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "彫銘：清風",
            "inscription_translation": "“Seifū” inscribed on the base",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "共箱の箱書：（蓋裏）秘色窯菓子鉢 三世清風晟山作（印：帝室技藝員）襲（袭）四世清風與平識之（印：清風）",
            "inscription_translation": "The box for this sweets bowl has an attestation by Yohei IV that it is a work by Yohei III and in the hisokuyō (C. mise yao), or “mysterious color ware,” style.",
            "sortorder": 2
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Many ceramics created by the Seifū Studio refer to and emulate Chinese ceramics in form and glazing.",
    "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. 90, pp. 180–183"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.232",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:03:39.758000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.232/2022.232_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 448349,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with green glaze",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
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    "image_url": null
}

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