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    "localId": "447729",
    "label": "Incense Burner",
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    "id": "447729",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Incense Burner",
    "description": "Kyoto-based Japanese ceramist Seifū Yohei III (1851–1914) admired the glaze colors found on Chinese porcelain and tried to replicate them through intensive experimentation. His green and creamy white glazes were particularly well received. The combinations of colors with subtle molded and incised decorations in his ceramics respond powerfully to changes in light, creating a dynamic viewing experience. Names for the glazes, written in ink with a brush on the lids of the custom-made storage boxes for the works, often indicate a specific glaze or ware that had inspired him, even when the resulting color was distinctively his own.",
    "date": "1895–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.177",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "creators": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.177/2022.177_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.177/2022.177_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.177/2022.177_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height with lid: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); Diameter: 14.4 cm (5 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.177"
}

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    "tec": "Porcelain with tea-leaf colored glaze and molded design and geometric openwork silver lid",
    "tombstone": "Incense Burner, 1895–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with tea-leaf colored glaze and molded design and geometric openwork silver lid; height with lid: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); diameter: 14.4 cm (5 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.177",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "This incense burner with a geometric-patterned silver lid has a glaze identified on its box lid as “tea leaf [color–glazed] porcelain” (<em>chayōji</em>).",
    "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. 33, pp. 108–109"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Colours of Kyoto, Ceramics From the Yohei Studio.\" <em>The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries </em>27, no. 1 (November 2023): 8",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 8"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.177",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:01:52.937000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.177/2022.177_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 447729,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with tea-leaf colored glaze and molded design and geometric openwork silver lid",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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