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Cup from Sake Cups with Dragons

Seifū Yohei IIILinkedCulture matchlcp-76f8f3f7462b

Date: c. 1893–1914
Medium: One from a 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
Object ID: 519502

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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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

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