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    "localId": "447782",
    "label": "Dining Bowl",
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    "id": "447782",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dining Bowl",
    "description": "This Yohei III dining bowl with an everted rim has a glaze identified in its box lid inscription as <em>hisoku </em>(C. <em>mise</em>), or “mysterious color.” This name typically refers specifically to a type of high-quality, green-glazed ceramic produced in the ninth and tenth centuries at the Yue kilns in China’s Zhejiang Province as tribute ware for the imperial family.",
    "date": "1912–14",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.231",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.231/2022.231_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.231/2022.231_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); Diameter: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.231"
}

{
    "tec": "Porcelain with green glaze",
    "tombstone": "Dining Bowl, 1912–14. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with green glaze; height: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); diameter: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.231",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "共箱の箱書：（蓋表）秘色彩古磁盂（印：清風）；（蓋裏）清風制之（印：帝室技藝員）",
            "inscription_translation": "On the top of the storage box's lid, an inscription with a description of the contents  and seal reading “Seifū.\" On the inside of the box lid, an inscription reading \"Made by Seifū\" with the Imperial Household Artist seal, “Teishitsu gigei’in.”",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "彫銘：清風",
            "inscription_translation": "“Seifū” incised on the base of the bowl.",
            "sortorder": 2
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Many ceramics created by the Seifū Studio refer to and emulate Chinese ceramics in form and glazing.",
    "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. 89, pp. 180–183"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.231",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:02:32.704000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.231/2022.231_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 447782,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with green glaze",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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