Incense Burner
Seifu Yohei III · 1895–1914 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Kyoto-based Japanese ceramist Seifū Yohei III (1851–1914) admired the glaze colors found on Chinese porcelain and tried to replicate them through intensive experimentation. His green and creamy white glazes were particularly well received. The combinations of colors with subtle molded and incised decorations in his ceramics respond powerfully to changes in light, creating a dynamic viewing experience. Names for the glazes, written in ink with a brush on the lids of the custom-made storage boxes for the works, often indicate a specific glaze or ware that had inspired him, even when the resulting color was distinctively his own. This globular incense burner has a tea leaf colored glaze and linear molded decorations running around the base of the collar and down the legs.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0
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- Maker
- Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
- Date
- 1895–1914
- Medium
- Porcelain with tea-leaf colored glaze
- Place of origin
- Japan
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
