Sweets Dish with Landscape (1874): Art, History and Details

Sweets Dish with Landscape (1874) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878).

The work and its context

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

Seifū Yohei II excelled as a painter, as evidenced by his floral and landscape designs. His works were selected as the best among Kyoto ceramics shown to jurists from Europe and the US, thus paving the way for international recognition of the studio in the late 1800s.

Object facts

• Title: Sweets Dish with Landscape
• Date: 1874
• Creator attribution: Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Porcelain with underglaze blue
• Dimensions: height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); Diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2022.148

A detail from the museum

This dish has a complex landscape with a river or lakefront residential compound set among pine and willow trees and approached by a plank bridge over the water.

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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