The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 13, 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 six side dishes, or mukōzuke, are “snow-flower style” (sekkashiki), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have six 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=13 September 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.194.5