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    "localId": "519601",
    "label": "Incense Burner",
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    "id": "519601",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Incense Burner",
    "description": "Yohei III made incense burners in a wide variety of designs and styles. The body and glaze of this one are <em>taihakuji</em>, or “great white porcelain,” an important early invention Yohei III devised in 1872 that involved the combination of a distinctive translucent, creamy glaze over an ivory-colored clay body. The burner has rounded, cabriole legs, resembling tiny table legs, attached to the exterior. <br><br>Lids were produced outside the studio by metalwork specialists. For this incense burner, they created a floral-patterned silver lid.",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.179.a",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.179.a"
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    "tec": "Porcelain with creamy white glaze and molded design",
    "tombstone": "Incense Burner, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with creamy white glaze and molded design. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.179.a",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "There is the faintest decorative band around the bottom of the incense burner.",
    "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. 35, pp. 108–109"
        }
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    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:06:57.565000",
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    "med": "Porcelain with creamy white glaze and molded design",
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