Pine-shaped Dish
Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
1893–1914
- Medium
- Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide and crackled glaze
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- height: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.); length: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.); width: 15.9 cm (6 1/4 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
The clever design on this stoneware Awata-style dish makes use of the interior and exterior surfaces to present a close-up view of pine needles on the branch painted in underglaze iron oxide. The branch is shown on the outside of one side of the dish, while the needles fan out across the inside. The entire dish, when seen from above, reveals a shape resembling the mushroom cap–like motif appearing in textile designs and in classical Japanese paintings called Yamato-e to represent pine trees.
