Cleveland Museum of Art

Incense Burner

Seifū Yohei III

Date

1893–97

Medium

Porcelain with molded design, crimson glaze, and floral openwork silver lid

Culture

Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Seifū Yohei III made incense burners in a wide variety of designs and styles. Their silver lids were produced outside the studio by metalwork specialists. This tripod incense burner has a distinctive red-colored glaze and linear molded decorations that run around the base of the collar and down the legs. Seifū Yohei III’s incense burner with a variety of flowers on its lid has a glaze described as “crimson glaze” ( kōyū ); it is also dappled with dark spots of varied opacity and tiny pores throughout, which gives the container a rich, textured effect.

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