Roller Ends for Hanging Scroll (1893–1914): Art, History and Details

Roller Ends for Hanging Scroll (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:

Before entering into his apprenticeship with Yohei II, Seifū Yohei III trained as a painter in Osaka. He continued to paint throughout his career as a ceramist. As part of his ceramic practice, Yohei III also made roller ends to be placed at either end of the wooden dowel around which the lower part of a hanging scroll mounting is wrapped. These served both as weights for the painting and as knobs for handling it when rolling and unrolling. The pair here is made of porcelain with a green glaze.

Object facts

• Title: Roller Ends for Hanging Scroll
• Date: 1893–1914
• Creator attribution: Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Pair of hanging scroll roller ends; porcelain with green glaze
• Dimensions: length (each): 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); diameter (each): 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2022.152

A detail from the museum

These are the roller ends for the hanging scroll by Seifū Yohei III, Rain Clearing over a Summer’s Mountain, CMA 2022.151.

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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