The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Squat cylindrical vase that narrows at the rim and depicts stylized blue flowers against a gold background. Streaking blue creates thick branches in the lower half, thinning in the upper half and adorned with flowers made with five blue blobs against white and white dots against the branches. In the background subtle, red horizontal lines streak through the gold background. A strip of white porcelain shows at the rim.

Flower Container with Plum Design

mid- to late 1900s

Kondō Yūzō

(Japanese, 1902–1985)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89)
porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze red and gold decoration
Diameter: 27.1 cm (10 11/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.); Overall: 26.2 cm (10 5/16 in.)
Kelvin Smith Fund 1994.95
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The Kondō Yūzō Memorial Museum in Kyoto has works by three generations of the Kondō family of ceramists.

Description

Kondō Yūzō's mature work combined classical East Asian decorative motifs such as pine, bamboo, and plum executed with Western-style brushwork on traditional Asian forms.
  • ?–1994
    (Gatodo Gallery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1994–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).
  • {{cite web|title=Flower Container with Plum Design|url=false|author=Kondō Yūzō|year=mid- to late 1900s|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1994.95