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Source Description
Seifū Yohei II excelled as a painter, as evidenced by his floral and landscape designs. His works were selected as the best among Kyoto ceramics shown to jurists from Europe and the US, thus paving the way for international recognition of the studio in the late 1800s.
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519431
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Sake Cup with Auspicious Plants
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519431
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Sake Cup with Auspicious Plants
description
Seifū Yohei II excelled as a painter, as evidenced by his floral and landscape designs. His works were selected as the best among Kyoto ceramics shown to jurists from Europe and the US, thus paving the way for international recognition of the studio in the late 1800s.
date
1861–78
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CC0
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en
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Q117351424
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446686
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Ceramic
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Japan
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2022.145.2
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One of a pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue
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Sake Cup with Auspicious Plants (蘭竹菊・松梅図盃), 1861–78. Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878). One of a pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.145.2
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蘭竹菊・松梅図盃
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Japanese Art
inscriptions
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松梅芝仙
inscription_translation
pine, plum, and immortal plant ("shōbaishisen")
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Four characters just under the rim
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1
didYouKnow
The plum and the pine are two of the "Three Friends of Winter," auspicious symbols of a cultured scholar's virtues: steadfastness, resilience, and flexibility.
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citation
Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 4, pp. 68–69 and fig. 36, p. 59
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Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
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2026-05-29 09:05:40.518000
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519431
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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One of a pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue
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