Vase with Bamboo Joints
Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951)
1914–46
- Medium
- Porcelain with green glaze and molded design
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- height: 30.5 cm (12 in.); Diameter: 15.2 cm (6 in.); height with stand: 33 cm (13 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Taishō period (1912–26)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Yohei IV’s Vase with Bamboo Joints has a shape often seen in pairs of bronze flower vases placed to either side of Buddhist altars before sculptural icons. While the term hisoku (Chinese mise 秘色), or “mysterious color” glazing, indicates a more specific green color than seiji 青磁, a more general word for green-glazed porcelain, there is still some range in the actual color of the glaze.
