Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes (1893–1914): Art, History and Details

Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes (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:

According to the box lid, this set of six side dishes, or mukōzuke, are “snow-flower style” (sekkashiki), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have six 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.

Object facts

• Title: Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes
• Date: 1893–1914
• Creator attribution: Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze
• Dimensions: Overall: 5 x 13.5 cm (1 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2022.194.1

A detail from the museum

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.

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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