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    "localId": "447757",
    "label": "Sake Pourers",
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    "id": "447757",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sake Pourers",
    "description": "Like his father, Yohei IV also produced works with red or yellow monochrome glazes. His yellow-glazed works include this pair of sake pourers, a set of five drinking cups <a href=\"http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.217\"><u>CMA 2022.217</u></a>, and a sweets bowl molded into the shape of a chrysanthemum <a href=\"http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.218\"><u>CMA 2022.218</u></a>.",
    "date": "1914–46",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.216",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.216/2022.216_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.216/2022.216_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height (each): 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); diameter (each): 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Taishō period (1912–26) or Shōwa period (1926–89)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.216"
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    "tec": "Pair of sake pourers; porcelain with yellow glaze and bamboo handles",
    "tombstone": "Sake Pourers, 1914–46. Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951). Pair of sake pourers; porcelain with yellow glaze and bamboo handles; height (each): 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); diameter (each): 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.216",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "清風造 。\n【印】 清風",
            "inscription_translation": "Inscription on the inside of each inner box's lid: \"Made by Seifū\". Seal: “Seifū”",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "成山清風",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the top of each inner box's lid: “Seizan Seifū”",
            "inscription_remark": "Each interior storage box is inscribed with a description of the vessels. The top of the exterior box lid is also inscribed.",
            "sortorder": 2
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The lid's handle is made of bamboo.",
    "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. 75, pp. 164–165"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.216",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:02:06.161000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.216/2022.216_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 447757,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Pair of sake pourers; porcelain with yellow glaze and bamboo handles",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
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    "image_url": null
}

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