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    "localId": "447713",
    "label": "Sweets Bowl with Plum Tree",
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    "id": "447713",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sweets Bowl with Plum Tree",
    "description": "In Chinese culture, the plum symbolizes the virtue of perseverance. For his sweets bowl based on Qing dynasty (1644–1911) Chinese prototypes, Seifū Yohei IV first painted the gnarled boughs of a plum tree in iron oxide on the surface. Then he made the tree’s blossoms slightly raised by building up slip, or liquified clay. He painted their centers yellow. Before applying the blue glaze, he covered the blossoms with paper so that they remained white.",
    "date": "1914–46",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.242",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.242/2022.242_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "11.5 x 21.5 cm (4 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Taishō period (1912–26) to Shōwa period (1926–89)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.242"
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    "tec": "Porcelain with underglaze color and modeled design",
    "tombstone": "Sweets Bowl with Plum Tree (月宵青磁梅図菓子鉢), 1914–46. Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951). Porcelain with underglaze color and modeled design; 11.5 x 21.5 cm (4 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.242",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "月宵青磁梅図菓子鉢",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "“Seifū” incised on the base",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the inside of the box lid: “Seifū",
            "inscription_remark": "The storage box's lid is inscribed on both the top and the inside.",
            "sortorder": 2
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Broad access to high-quality Chinese ceramics occasioned by the collapse of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and the dispersal of elite Chinese collections presented Seifū Yohei IV with models for both molded decoration and painted motifs.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Vilbar, Sinead. Colors of Kyoto: Modern ceramics of Japan.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>63, no. 2 (2023): 14–17.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 16",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2023-02/page/14/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "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. 72, p. 163"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.242",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 11:45:48.050000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.242/2022.242_print.jpg",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with underglaze color and modeled design",
    "creatorTags": [
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)",
        "male"
    ],
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}

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