Dining Bowl with Clematis
Medium
Porcelain with underglaze and overglaze colors, molded and incised designs
Dimensions
diam. 19 cm · height: h. 6.9 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.156
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About this artwork
The bowl is an especially well-executed example of Yohei III’s work in underglaze blue combined with other underglaze colors. This low-profile dining bowl has paintings of flowering clematis vines under the glaze in blue and red. Water is depicted with blue in the bottom of the bowl. The lines of white used to show motion on the water’s surface were created using either a reserve technique, where blue was omitted, or a masking technique, where parts of the surface were covered before applying th...