Cleveland Museum of Art

Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes

Seifū Yohei III

Date

1893–1914

Medium

One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze

Culture

Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

According to the box lid, this set of 6 side dishes, or mukōzuke , are “snow-flower style” ( sekkashiki ), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have 6 lobes and scalloped edges, are traced with brown iron oxide at the rim. The outside of each bowl is glazed with a very bright pink over the basin and foot, and the inside is left white. From directly above, one sees a snowflake-like shape, and from the side, they seem to float above a rosy ground. The box for this set of dishes has an inscription on the side noting that they were for a person with the family name Nakamoto.

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