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According to the box lid, this set of 6 side dishes, or <em>mukōzuke</em>, are “snow-flower style” (<em>sekkashiki</em>), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have 6 lobes and scalloped edges, are traced with brown iron oxide at the rim. The outside of each bowl is glazed with a very bright pink over the basin and foot, and the inside is left white. From directly above, one sees a snowflake-like shape, and from the side, they seem to float above a rosy ground.
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519637
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Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes
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519637
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Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes
description
According to the box lid, this set of 6 side dishes, or <em>mukōzuke</em>, are “snow-flower style” (<em>sekkashiki</em>), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have 6 lobes and scalloped edges, are traced with brown iron oxide at the rim. The outside of each bowl is glazed with a very bright pink over the basin and foot, and the inside is left white. From directly above, one sees a snowflake-like shape, and from the side, they seem to float above a rosy ground.
date
1893–1914
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CC0
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en
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299428
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Ceramic
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1
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Overall: 5 x 13.5 cm (1 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
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Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
accession
2022.194.4
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One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze
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Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze; overall: 5 x 13.5 cm (1 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.194.4
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Japanese Art
didYouKnow
The box for this set of dishes has an inscription on the side noting that they were for a person with the family name Nakamoto.
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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. 50, p. 125
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Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
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2026-05-29 09:07:10.413000
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519637
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze
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male
Asian (from 1900 to present)
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