Cleveland Museum of Art

Single Stem Vase

Seifū Yohei IV

Date

1914–46

Medium

Porcelain with molded design and copper-red glaze

Culture

Japan, Taishō period (1912–26)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. This vase has lion heads for “ears."

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