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Single Stem Vase
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated 1914–46. Recorded culture or place: Japan, Taishō period (1912–26).
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- Museum title
- Single Stem Vase
- Date
- 1914–46
- Culture / origin
- Japan, Taishō period (1912–26)
- Materials and technique
- Porcelain with molded design and copper-red glaze
- Dimensions
- height: 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.); Diameter: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2022.210
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This vase is copper red in color at the top and becomes purple closer to the bottom, not unlike a Chinese transformation or flambé glaze with mottling and dripping of the glaze. The lip of the vase and much of the lion-head designs remain white. On the box lid, the color of the glaze is called shinsha, which is often glossed as copper red or oxblood, or sometimes cinnabar. Here, it is meant to refer to a Qing-dynasty glazing technique developed in an effort to reproduce a red glaze used during the reign of the Xuande emperor (1426–35) of the Ming dynasty.
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