Dish from Dishes with Matching Shells (1893–1914): Art, History and Details

Dish from Dishes with Matching Shells (1893–1914) 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:

Yohei III’s main output for his sophisticated clientele was in the form of tea sets and dining sets. He created a range of dishes in green glazes. He often produced in pairs, sets of five, or sets of ten. This pair of shell dishes have a box lid interior attestation by Yohei IV that the dishes were made by Yohei III with a cracked-ice (hyōretsu) pattern in the glaze, omitting reference to any glaze coloration.

Object facts

• Title: Dish from Dishes with Matching Shells
• Date: 1893–1914
• Creator attribution: Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: One of a pair of dishes; porcelain with celadon glaze
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2022.189.2

A detail from the museum

These shell-shaped dishes are of the saucer type, suitable for dipping sauces.

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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