Inverted baluster vase with two cranes
Details
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Title
Inverted baluster vase with two cranes
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Artist/maker
Seifū Yohei III (1851 - 1914) (potter) -
Associated place
Kyoto (Seifū kiln-site) (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1910
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912) -
Material and technique
porcelain, with modelled slip decoration, and underglaze painting in blue, black, pink, and yellow
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Object type
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Dimensions
44 cm (height)
24 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Story Fund, 1993.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1993.399
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Catalogue text
Tall inverted baluster vase with low relief moulding of two cranes in colours on an underglaze blue pine tree, with a pink and white ground. Incised signature on base within two underglaze blue circle: Dai Nihon Seifū zō.
Seifū I had been a pupil of Nin'ami Dōhachi [see EA2000.181] in Kyōto; the family kiln was set up in Gojōzaka. This is an unusually showy piece.In: Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)
Glossary of terms
porcelain
slip
underglaze painting
Further reading
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 15 on p. 34, illus. pp. 34-35
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