Lid for an Incense Burner
Medium
Floral openwork silver lid
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.178.b
Tags
Asian (from 1900 to present)male
About this artwork
Seifū Yohei III made incense burners in a wide variety of designs and styles. This tripod incense burner has a distinctive red-colored glaze and linear molded decorations that run around the base of the collar and down the legs. It has a variety of flowers on its lid. The glaze is described as “crimson glaze” (kōyū); it is also dappled with dark spots of varied opacity and tiny pores throughout, which gives the container a rich, textured effect.