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Collection Online as of November 9, 2024

Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes

Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes

1893–1914
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The box for this set of dishes has an inscription on the side noting that they were for a person with the family name Nakamoto.

Description

According to the box lid, this set of 6 side dishes, or mukōzuke, are “snow-flower style” (sekkashiki), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have 6 lobes and scalloped edges, are traced with brown iron oxide at the rim. The outside of each bowl is glazed with a very bright pink over the basin and foot, and the inside is left white. From directly above, one sees a snowflake-like shape, and from the side, they seem to float above a rosy ground.
  • ?–2022
    James and Christine Heusinger, Berea, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2022–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 50, p. 125
  • {{cite web|title=Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes|url=false|author=Seifū Yohei III|year=1893–1914|access-date=09 November 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.194.2