Sweets Dish with Landscape, by Seifū Yohei II, 1874
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Sweets Dish with Landscape

Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878)

1874

Medium
Porcelain with underglaze blue
Classification
Ceramic
Dimensions
height: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); Diameter: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
Culture
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
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 II excelled as a painter, as evidenced by his floral and landscape designs. His works were selected as the best among Kyoto ceramics shown to jurists from Europe and the US, thus paving the way for international recognition of the studio in the late 1800s.