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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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Document identity
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447099
label
Sweets Dish with Landscape
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object
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Source metadata
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447099
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object
title
Sweets Dish with Landscape
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
1874
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117706833
creators
446686
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); Diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
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Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
accession
2022.148
Source extras
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Porcelain with underglaze blue
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Sweets Dish with Landscape (菓子皿), 1874. Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878). Porcelain with underglaze blue; height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.148
titleInOriginalLanguage
菓子皿
collection
Japanese Art
inscriptions
inscription
明治六年五月為仲吉君属
inscription_translation
The year Meiji 6 [1874 ], fifth month, for Mr. Nakayoshi
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1
didYouKnow
This dish has a complex landscape with a river or lakefront residential compound set among pine and willow trees and approached by a plank bridge over the water.
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. 6, pp. 72–73
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Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
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2026-05-29 09:01:36.939000
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447099
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Porcelain with underglaze blue
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male
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