Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock (late 1800s): Art, History and Details

Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock (late 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Okabe Ko (Japanese).

The work and its context

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

A great interest in Western scientific studies developed in Japan during the late Edo period (1615-1868) and into the Meiji era (1868-1912). One outcome of this phenomenon in the visual arts was the detailed portrayal of plant, animal, and marine life. This painting is an assemblage of objects carefully observed from nature, but not usually seen together.

Object facts

• Title: Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock
• Date: late 1800s
• Creator attribution: Okabe Ko (Japanese)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
• Dimensions: Overall: 170.2 x 87.7 cm (67 x 34 1/2 in.); Painting only: 126.4 x 56 cm (49 3/4 x 22 1/16 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1990.68

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

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