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    "localId": "447749",
    "label": "Flower Vase",
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}

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    "id": "447749",
    "contentType": "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",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.233",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q117793535"
    ],
    "creators": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.233/2022.233_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.233/2022.233_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.233/2022.233_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 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"
}

{
    "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.",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "“Seifū” inscribed on the base",
            "sortorder": 2
        },
        {
            "inscription_translation": "Flower seal on the lid of the storage box",
            "sortorder": 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.”",
            "sortorder": 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"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.233",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:02:01.340000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.233/2022.233_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 447749,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porecelain with green glaze",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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