The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Long-Necked Vase
1893–97
(Japanese, 1851–1914)
height: 30 cm (11 13/16 in.); Diameter: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
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.- ?–2022James and Christine Heusinger, Berea, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2022–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. 52, p. 127
- Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.196