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Overglaze color enamels create a seascape made complete by the bowl’s boat shape. The bowl’s form inserts a human presence into the scene, much in the way <em>rusu mōyō</em> is used in paintings to suggest people just out of view. Rusu mōyō is a pictorial device by which the presence of someone physically absent from an image is conveyed through the depiction of clothing or other items. <br><br>The inside of the bowl has a scene of plovers flying through the sky over a profusion of seaweed in sand below. In addition to the black, gray, and green of the overglaze elements, warm pink banding and mottling in the clay come through the glaze and are remarkably effective at suggesting the seashore.
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Document identity
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445185
label
Boat-Shaped Bowl with Plovers
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object
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Source metadata
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445185
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object
title
Boat-Shaped Bowl with Plovers
description
Overglaze color enamels create a seascape made complete by the bowl’s boat shape. The bowl’s form inserts a human presence into the scene, much in the way <em>rusu mōyō</em> is used in paintings to suggest people just out of view. Rusu mōyō is a pictorial device by which the presence of someone physically absent from an image is conveyed through the depiction of clothing or other items. <br><br>The inside of the bowl has a scene of plovers flying through the sky over a profusion of seaweed in sand below. In addition to the black, gray, and green of the overglaze elements, warm pink banding and mottling in the clay come through the glaze and are remarkably effective at suggesting the seashore.
date
1893–97
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117706831
creators
299428
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); length: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); depth: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
cul
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
accession
2022.183
Source extras
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Stoneware with crackled glaze and overglaze color enamel and gold
tombstone
Boat-Shaped Bowl with Plovers, 1893–97. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Stoneware with crackled glaze and overglaze color enamel and gold; height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); length: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); depth: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.183
collection
Japanese Art
didYouKnow
On the outside of the bowl, on each side, birds fly about grasses in search of a meal.
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. 39, p. 112
creditline
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
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2026-05-29 09:01:18.383000
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445185
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Stoneware with crackled glaze and overglaze color enamel and gold
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male
Asian (from 1900 to present)
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photo
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