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    "localId": "447728",
    "label": "Snow-Flake Side Dishes",
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    "id": "447728",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Snow-Flake Side Dishes",
    "description": "According to the box lid, this set of 6 side dishes, or <em>mukōzuke</em>, are “snow-flower style” (<em>sekkashiki</em>), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have 6 lobes and scalloped edges, are traced with brown iron oxide at the rim. The outside of each bowl is glazed with a very bright pink over the basin and foot, and the inside is left white. From directly above, one sees a snowflake-like shape, and from the side, they seem to float above a rosy ground.",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.194",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.194/2022.194_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.194/2022.194_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height (each): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); diameter (each): 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.194"
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{
    "tec": "Set of six dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze",
    "tombstone": "Snow-Flake Side Dishes, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Set of six dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze; height (each): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); diameter (each): 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.194",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "Base inscribed with \"Seifū\"",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "帝室技芸員",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the lid: Imperial Household Artist “Teishitsu gigei’in”",
            "sortorder": 2
        },
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the top of the box lid \"Seifū\"",
            "sortorder": 3
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The box for this set of dishes has an inscription on the side noting that they were for a person with the family name Nakamoto.",
    "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. 50, p. 125"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.194",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:01:47.746000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.194/2022.194_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 447728,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Set of six dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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