Pheasants in Cherry
Medium
Porcelain with molded and carved design, underglaze color, and cream glaze
Dimensions
diam. 28.5 cm · height: h. 39 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
2024.36
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About this artwork
Like the design of Flower Vase with Phoenix in Paulownia (CMA 2022.199), the pair of pheasants in a dramatic landscape setting on this vase was created by adding clay to the surface of the clay body and then molding and carving it. Here, instead of a typical white clay, Yohei III has used an ivory clay. He then added gradated pink around the complex design, which with its multitude of cherry blossoms must have been painstaking to mask with precision. For the birds’ eyes, he added a touch of yell...