Collection record · Everyday wonders
Long-Necked Vase
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated 1893–97. Recorded culture or place: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912).
Explore the object recordOBJECT RECORD
A closer look at the details.
- Museum title
- Long-Necked Vase
- Date
- 1893–97
- Culture / origin
- Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Materials and technique
- Stoneware with crackled glaze
- Dimensions
- height: 30 cm (11 13/16 in.); Diameter: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2022.196
FROM THE MUSEUM
In the museum’s words
The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
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.
FOLLOW THE SOURCE
Text and image sources
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of James and Christine Heusinger · CC0
The summary is based on public collection data. Refer to the museum’s latest record for the title, date and attribution.
Open the complete museum record View the open-access policyTHE VISITOR BOOK
What caught your eye?
Opening the visitor book…
