The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 19, 2024

Flower Vase

Flower Vase

1912–14
(Japanese, 1851–1914)
height: 35.5 cm (14 in.); Diameter: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The vase's box lid identifies the glaze as hisoku 秘色 or “mysterious color.”

Description

This flower vase has a tall, slightly flared foot and bulbous body with a slimmer neck. It is completely undecorated but for the hisoku, or “mysterious color,” glaze. Its box lid has a red seal with a flower on it, a rather unusual feature also seen on the box for the green-glazed water container that belonged to the Hosokawa family (see CMA 2022.197).
  • ?–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. 91, pp. 180–183
  • {{cite web|title=Flower Vase|url=false|author=Seifū Yohei III|year=1912–14|access-date=19 September 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.233