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    "localId": "447103",
    "label": "Sake Cups with Auspicious Flora",
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    "id": "447103",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sake Cups with Auspicious Flora",
    "description": "Seifū Yohei II and his successor, Seifū Yohei III, trained in ink painting. Their brush skills are seen in their underglaze cobalt blue designs. One of Yohei II’s sake cups has depictions of orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, representing spring, summer, and fall, while the other has pine and plum, representing winter. Just under the rim, he has also brushed the phrase “Pine, plum, and fungus immortals” (松梅芝仙).",
    "date": "1861–78",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.145",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.145/2022.145_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.145/2022.145_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height (each): 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); diameter (each): 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.145"
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    "tec": "Pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue",
    "tombstone": "Sake Cups with Auspicious Flora (蘭竹菊・松梅図盃), 1861–78. Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878). Pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue; height (each): 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); diameter (each): 7 cm (2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.145",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "蘭竹菊・松梅図盃",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "松梅芝仙",
            "inscription_translation": "pine, plum, and immortal plant （\"shōbaishisen\")",
            "inscription_remark": "Four characters just under the rim on 2022.145.2",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "These modest cups are important for the connoisseurship of the art of Yohei II because their original box is intact with a signature and seal on the interior of the lid.",
    "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. 4, pp. 68–69 and fig. 36, p. 59"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.145",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 11:45:48.043000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.145/2022.145_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 447103,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue",
    "creatorTags": [
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    ],
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}

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