Cleveland Museum of Art
Bowl with Dragon Roundels
Seifū Yohei IIILinkedCulture matchlcp-76f8f3f7462b
- Date
- 1897–1914
- Medium
- Porcelain with underglaze blue, iron oxide, and yellow glaze
- Culture
- Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 447712
What the image shows
A yellow bowl with blue dragon and cloud design.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
While this bowl has no box, it is attributed to Yohei III based in part on the style of the signature on its base. Below the rim, the bowl’s interior has a ring of clouds in underglaze blue. On the outside, bright yellow is combined with roundels of dragons capturing flaming jewels, painted under the glaze in blue, while the inside has a single dragon roundel in underglaze blue against a white ground. The work’s bold decorative scheme is more in keeping with what might be expected from the high-output studio of Miyagawa Kozan in Yokohama, whose products were designed for mass appeal. A similar bowl is in the collection of the Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo. Seifū Yohei III was inspired by the Chinese mythical animals and motifs with magical symbolism—including clouds and fungi—that were common on porcelain objects made at Jingdezhen in China during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and then exported around the world.
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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
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
Japanese Decorated Porcelain DishesThese objects are all ceramic dishes from Japan spanning the Momoyama, Edo, and Meiji periods, featuring various decorative techniques including underglaze blue, overglaze enamels, and naturalistic or figural motifs.
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