Cleveland Museum of Art

Sake Cup with Auspicious Plants

Seifū Yohei IILinkedCulture matchlcp-53402d29de8c

Date: 1861–78
Medium: One of a pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue
Culture: Japan
Department: Japanese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 519431

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Seifū Yohei II excelled as a painter, as evidenced by his floral and landscape designs. His works were selected as the best among Kyoto ceramics shown to jurists from Europe and the US, thus paving the way for international recognition of the studio in the late 1800s. The plum and the pine are two of the "Three Friends of Winter," auspicious symbols of a cultured scholar's virtues: steadfastness, resilience, and flexibility.

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Credit line: Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Provenance: ?–2022: James and Christine Heusinger, Berea, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2022–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH