Dish from Dishes with Shells
Seifū Yohei IV (Japanese, 1872–1951)
1914–46
- Medium
- One from a set of five dishes; porcelain with blue glaze, iron oxide, and molded design
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- height: 2.5 cm (1 in.); Diameter: 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912) or Taishō period (1912–26)
- 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
Yohei IV chose an aquatic theme for this set of five mukōzuke, side dishes. He added an iron oxide rim and used a concentrated blue glaze on both the interior and exterior. The glaze, named on the box lid, is his father’s “evening moon” (tsukiyoi) color. The conch in relief takes up the entire bottom of the dish. Up the sides are two snails on one end and on the other a scallop. This results in a boldly graphic, less realistic effect.
