Cleveland Museum of Art

Flower Vase

Seifū Yohei III

Date

1912–14

Medium

Porecelain with green glaze

Culture

Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This flower vase has a tall, slightly flared foot and bulbous body with a slimmer neck. It is completely undecorated but for the hisoku , or “mysterious color,” glaze. Its box lid has a red seal with a flower on it, a rather unusual feature also seen on the box for the green-glazed water container that belonged to the Hosokawa family (see CMA 2022.197 ) . The vase's box lid identifies the glaze as hisoku 秘色 or “mysterious color.”

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