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Snow-Flake Side Dishes
Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
1893–1914
- Medium
- Set of six dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- height (each): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); diameter (each): 13.5 cm (5 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
According to the box lid, this set of 6 side dishes, or mukōzuke, are “snow-flower style” (sekkashiki), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have 6 lobes and scalloped edges, are traced with brown iron oxide at the rim. The outside of each bowl is glazed with a very bright pink over the basin and foot, and the inside is left white. From directly above, one sees a snowflake-like shape, and from the side, they seem to float above a rosy ground.
