Cleveland Museum of Art

Incense Burner

Seifū Yohei III

Date

1893–97

Medium

Porcelain with molded design, crimson glaze

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. 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. Yohei III had the silver lids produced outside the studio by metalwork specialists. For this tripod, they decorated the lid with a variety of flowers. This tripod incense burner has linear molded decorations that run around the base of the collar and down the legs.

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