Teacups with Dragons
Seifū Yohei I (Japanese, 1801–1861)
1840s–57
- Medium
- Set of five tea cups; porcelain with underglaze blue
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- height (each): 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); diameter (each): 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- 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
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Seifū Yohei I made both blue and white porcelains after Ming dynasty (1368–1644) Chinese wares fired in the kilns at Jingdezhen for export. He also made colorful stoneware in the style of his teacher, Nin’ami Dōhachi (Takahashi Dōhachi II) (1783–1855).
