Dish from Dishes with Flowers (1914–46): Art, History and Details

Dish from Dishes with Flowers (1914–46) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951).

The work and its context

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

One can imagine a cool summer breeze when looking at this set of dishes, each shaped with a crenulated mouth and glazed with blue. Around the rim and into the basin, the bowls have low-relief designs of flowers with underglaze yellow petals; their leaves and stems show white through the glaze. On each dish, the design continues over the rim onto one side.

Object facts

• Title: Dish from Dishes with Flowers
• Date: 1914–46
• Creator attribution: Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951)
• Culture: Japan, Taishō period (1912–26) or Shōwa period (1926–89)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: One from a set of five dishes; porcelain with underglaze yellow and blue glaze
• Dimensions: Overall: 4 x 10.2 cm (1 9/16 x 4 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2022.214.4

A detail from the museum

Seifū Yohei IV’s dishes with flowers feature underglaze yellow.

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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