Lid for a Sake Pourer with Flowers
Medium
Porcelain with molded design, overglaze color enamel
Dimensions
3.5 × 5 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.161.b
Tags
Asian (from 1900 to present)male
About this artwork
This sake pourer is of a type called a chōshi. It is elaborately decorated with flowers in overglaze enamels in several colors, including black for the contour lines of leaves and stems; orange, white, gold, and two shades of green for the peonies; and purple for the thistles. The white blossoms have been built up with white enamel, then incised for a white-on-white eect; the orange and purple use an absence of color to produce the contours of individual petals. Yohei III referred to his works...