Gu-Shaped Flower Vase

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Gu-Shaped Flower Vase

Seifū Yohei IIILinkedCulture matchlcp-76f8f3f7462b

Date
1893–97
Medium
Glazed porcelain with molded and carved designs
Culture
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
520329

Seifū Yohei III was the most prominent head of a ceramics studio in Kyoto that specialized in Chinese-style porcelains and especially items for use in sencha (煎茶), or the drinking of steeped-leaf tea with companions. Sencha was popular among the bunjin of Kyoto and Osaka, who often enjoyed it as part of their emulation of Chinese culture. While sencha was by design less formal than the Japanese tea ceremony, it still featured the display of treasured objects. Prized Chinese antiquities were generally unobtainable, so substitutes such as the Gu-Shaped Flower Vase were much in demand. This gu -shaped vase has “cherry blossom glaze” ( ōkayū ), which Yohei III invented in 1890.

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Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
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?–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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