The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Bowl with Numinous Fungi and Kirin
1893–1900
(Japanese, 1851–1914)
height: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); Diameter: 18.3 cm (7 3/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Inside the bowl is an auspicious, mythical deerlike creature called kirin in Japanese (麒麟 or qilin in Chinese).Description
The complex design of this bowl is also technically sophisticated in its execution. On the interior, Yohei III has placed a mythical beast called a kirin (Chinese, qilin) within a double-banded circle painted in cobalt blue under the glaze. Around the interior of the mouth, bordered at top and bottom with underglaze blue under a brown iron oxide painted rim, he has painted a continuous coin pattern with a red wash and green color enamels. The pattern is further defined and embellished with black iron outlining the green- and gold-painted diamonds over the diluted red. The inside is otherwise left white. On the exterior, the body has a dark blue glaze and an overlaid silver design of reishi with incised lines for detail.- 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. 99, pp. 190–191"Colours of Kyoto, Ceramics From the Yohei Studio." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 27, no. 1 (November 2023): 8 Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 8
- Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 19, 2023-March 10, 2024).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/2022.241