Nesting Dishes with Scattered Pine Needles and Maple Leaves
Seifū Yohei I (Japanese, 1801–1861)
1861–78
- Medium
- Pair of dishes; stoneware with underglaze blue, iron oxide, slip, and crackled glaze, and overglaze color enamel
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- inner dish: 6.7 x 14.4 x 11.5 cm (2 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 4 1/2 in.); outer dish: 7.5 x 15.3 x 12.7 cm (2 15/16 x 6 x 5 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
- 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
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).
