Drinking Cup from Dining Set with Plum Blossoms and Cracked-Ice
Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878)
c. 1875–78
Medium
Porcelain with molded designs
Dimensions
6.7 × 9.3 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.150.30
Tags
male
About this artwork
Each item in this set has a delicate low-relief design of flowering plum branches over scattered, intersecting lines meant to resemble the cracked-ice surface of a frozen body of water and is signed on the base in gold pigment. While Yohei II produced many fine works in underglaze blue, like those produced by Kiyomizu Shichibei, he also made works in quite different styles later in his career, from the early 1870 s. In 1873, he was appointed purveyor to the Industrial Center of Kyoto Pre...