Dining Bowl (1912–14): Art, History and Details

Dining Bowl (1912–14) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This Yohei III dining bowl with an everted rim has a glaze identified in its box lid inscription as hisoku (C. mise), or “mysterious color.” This name typically refers specifically to a type of high-quality, green-glazed ceramic produced in the ninth and tenth centuries at the Yue kilns in China’s Zhejiang Province as tribute ware for the imperial family.

Object facts

• Title: Dining Bowl
• Date: 1912–14
• Creator attribution: Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Porcelain with green glaze
• Dimensions: height: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); Diameter: 18.5 cm (7 5/16 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2022.231

A detail from the museum

Many ceramics created by the Seifū Studio refer to and emulate Chinese ceramics in form and glazing.

Collection credit

Gift of James and Christine Heusinger

Further reading listed by the museum

• Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.

View the collection record

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