The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of September 19, 2024
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
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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).- ?–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. 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