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Source Description
This flower vase has a tall, slightly flared foot and bulbous body with a slimmer neck. It is completely undecorated but for the <em>hisoku</em>, or “mysterious color,” glaze. Its box lid has a red seal with a flower on it, a rather unusual feature also seen on the box for the green-glazed water container that belonged to the Hosokawa family (see <a href="http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.197"><u>CMA 2022.197</u></a><u>)</u>.
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Document identity
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447749
label
Flower Vase
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object
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1
Source metadata
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447749
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object
title
Flower Vase
description
This flower vase has a tall, slightly flared foot and bulbous body with a slimmer neck. It is completely undecorated but for the <em>hisoku</em>, or “mysterious color,” glaze. Its box lid has a red seal with a flower on it, a rather unusual feature also seen on the box for the green-glazed water container that belonged to the Hosokawa family (see <a href="http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.197"><u>CMA 2022.197</u></a><u>)</u>.
date
1912–14
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117793535
creators
299428
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
height: 35.5 cm (14 in.); Diameter: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)
cul
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
accession
2022.233
Source extras
tec
Porecelain with green glaze
tombstone
Flower Vase, 1912–14. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porecelain with green glaze; height: 35.5 cm (14 in.); diameter: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.233
collection
Japanese Art
inscriptions
inscription
The vase's box lid identifies the vase as hisokuyō (C. mise yao 秘色窯), or “mysterious color ware,” style.
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1
inscription
清風
inscription_translation
“Seifū” inscribed on the base
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2
inscription_translation
Flower seal on the lid of the storage box
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3
inscription
清風制之 【印】帝室技芸員
inscription_translation
On the inside of the box lid, an inscription reading "Made by Seifū" with the Imperial Household Artist seal, “Teishitsu gigei’in.”
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4
didYouKnow
The vase's box lid identifies the glaze as <em>hisoku</em> 秘色 or “mysterious color.”
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. 91, pp. 180–183
creditline
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
updatedAt
2026-05-29 09:02:01.340000
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447749
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Porecelain with green glaze
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male
Asian (from 1900 to present)
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