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    "localId": "299440",
    "label": "Tong-shaped Vase with Band of Cloud",
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    "id": "299440",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Tong-shaped Vase with Band of Cloud",
    "description": "Many of the vases created by Yohei III and IV were made with reference to and in emulation of Chinese ceramics in both form and glazing. The vessel type called <em>tongping</em>, pronounced <em>tōbin </em>in Japanese, is tall and cylindrical, like the thick length of bamboo referenced in the shape of the ideograph <em>tong </em>筒. Unlike the ancient <em>gu</em>, <em>hu</em>, and <em>guan</em>, this form did not emerge in China until the Ming dynasty, and many such vases date to the early Qing dynasty.<br><br>Two green-glazed vases, this one by Yohei III and the other by Yohei IV <a href=\"http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.228\">CMA 2022.228</a>, are interpretations of this form. Yohei III’s version has slightly hunched shoulders and is somewhat wider at the top below the small neck and lip. Yohei IV’s vase is more angular. The wide rack of molded cloud encircling the Yohei III vase rises subtly from very low relief banding above and below it, accentuating the vessel’s rounded edges and complementing the form. In contrast, the allover flower vine pattern on the body and “seven treasures” pattern at the collar of the vase by Yohei IV evokes a garment’s cuffed sleeve, like the common English appellation for this type of vessel—“sleeve vase.”",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.225",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.); Diameter: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.); height with stand: 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.225"
}

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    "tec": "Porcelain with molded and carved design and green glaze",
    "tombstone": "Tong-shaped Vase with Band of Cloud, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with molded and carved design and green glaze; height: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.); diameter: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.); height with stand: 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.225",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "“Seifū” incised on the base",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "帝室技芸員",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the box lid: Imperial Household Artist “Teishitsu gigei’in”",
            "inscription_remark": "The storage box is also inscribed with the artist's name.",
            "sortorder": 2
        },
        {
            "inscription": "金聲玉振",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the box lid: “kinsei gyokushin”",
            "inscription_remark": "The storage box lid is also inscribed.",
            "sortorder": 3
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Seifū Yohei III mined the repertoire of Chinese vessel types, from ceramics modeled after ancient ritual bronzes to shapes developed in the Yuan (1279–1368) and Ming (1368–1644) dynasties.",
    "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. 83, pp. 170–171"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.225",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:53:36.502000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.225/2022.225_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 299440,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with molded and carved design and green glaze",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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