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Lit Charcoal and Ash Containers
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated 1893–1914. Recorded culture or place: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912).
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- Museum title
- Lit Charcoal and Ash Containers
- Date
- 1893–1914
- Culture / origin
- Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Materials and technique
- Set of four containers; porcelain with molded design
- Dimensions
- height (each): 10 cm (3 15/16 in.); diameter (each): 12 cm (4 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2022.181
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The box lid for these six-lobed lit charcoal and ash containers, or hiire, identifies them as kōhakuji, another of Yohei III’s translucent cream colors over ivory clay bodies. One might translate the name as “lustrous pearl[–glazed ivory] porcelain.” A hiire was filled with ash with burnt coals at the center so that embers and tobacco ash could be discarded safely during a gathering. Each of the lobes on the containers has a round protrusion set below the rim. The studlike pattern is called ruiza. The term is also used to describe the pattern that rings the shoulder of some flower vases or metal kettles used in chanoyu.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of James and Christine Heusinger · CC0
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