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Source 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.
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Document identity
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447728
label
Snow-Flake Side Dishes
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obj
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object
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Source metadata
id
447728
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object
title
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
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q117599810
creators
299428
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
height (each): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); diameter (each): 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.)
cul
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
accession
2022.194
Source extras
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Set of six dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze
tombstone
Snow-Flake Side Dishes, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Set of six dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze; height (each): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); diameter (each): 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.194
collection
Japanese Art
inscriptions
inscription
清風
inscription_translation
Base inscribed with "Seifū"
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1
inscription
帝室技芸員
inscription_translation
Seal on the lid: Imperial Household Artist “Teishitsu gigei’in”
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2
inscription
清風
inscription_translation
Seal on the top of the box lid "Seifū"
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3
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.
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. 50, p. 125
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Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
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2026-05-29 09:01:47.746000
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447728
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Set of six dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze
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male
Asian (from 1900 to present)
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