id: 520329 accession number: 2022.224 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.224 updated: 2025-04-16 18:22:52.717000 Gu-Shaped Vase, 1893–97. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with molded and carved design and cherry-blossom glaze; overall: 31.1 x 13.5 cm (12 1/4 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger 2022.224 title: Gu-Shaped Vase title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1893–97 creation date earliest: 1893 creation date latest: 1897 current location: creditline: Gift of James and Christine Heusinger copyright: --- culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912) technique: Porcelain with molded and carved design and cherry-blossom glaze department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 31.1 x 13.5 cm (12 1/4 x 5 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 大日本清風造 translation: remark: inscription: This gu-shaped vase has “cherry blossom glaze” (ōkayū), according to the inscription on its box. translation: remark: inscription: A label affixed to the side of the box gives a sense of how previous owners conceived of the piece. Although the label is partially abraded, one can make out the character nezu 鼠, used in the names of numerous light pinks, from Naniwa pink (Osaka pink) to Miyako pink (Kyoto, or capital, pink). Also legible is the phrase hakugōrai, a broad term that can describe a shade of white associated with ceramics discovered in Korean tombs, but often applied to other ceramics of similar coloration, many from Chinese kilns, including Ding (J. Tei) ware of the Northern Song dynasty. translation: remark: inscription: 清風 translation: remark: inscription: 帝室技芸員 translation: remark: inscription: 清風與平 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio opening date: 2023-08-19T04:00:00 Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 19, 2023-March 10, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE James and Christine Heusinger, Berea, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–2022 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2022– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 82, pp. 170–171 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.224/2022.224_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.224/2022.224_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.224/2022.224_full.tif