Cleveland Museum of Art

Sake Cups with Dragons

Seifū Yohei III

Date

1893–1914

Medium

Set of six sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue and iron oxide rims

Culture

Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Each of these sake cups pictures two backward-looking dragons. The highly stylized creatures resemble jade carvings. Seifū Yohei III was inspired by the Chinese mythical animals 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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