Cleveland Museum of Art

Lid for an Incense Burner

Seifū Yohei III

Date

1893–97

Medium

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. 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. It has a variety of flowers on its lid. The glaze is 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. The silver lid was produced outside the studio by metalwork specialists.

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