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Long-Necked Vase

1893–97

Seifū Yohei III 三代清風与平

(Japanese, 1851–1914)
Culture
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Medium
Stoneware with crackled glaze
Measurements
height: 30 cm (11 13/16 in.); Diameter: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger 2022.196
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Seifū Yohei III apprenticed in the Seifū studio, married into the family, and later adopted the Seifū Yohei name, when he became head of the studio.

Description

The glazing of this long, narrow-necked and bulbous-based vase has a network of shallow cracks, created when the glaze fractured as it cooled from firing. It is called a cracked-ice pattern or glaze, since the effect resembles the surface of a frozen lake. The cracks here are of a consistently high density throughout the vessel. This pattern is observed also in the transparent glaze of some Kyoto ware, in some of Yohei III’s green glazes, and in some of his vessels emulating Chinese forms. The interior of the box lid has an attestation to its authenticity by Yohei IV, and the footring is inscribed Seifū of Great Japan (Dai Nihon Seifū) in iron black.

Long-Necked Vase

1893–97

Seifū Yohei III

(Japanese, 1851–1914)
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

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