Prunus Vase with Amaranth
Medium
Porcelain with yellow glaze and overglaze color enamel and gold
Dimensions
diam. 11.4 cm · height: h. 29.8 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.229
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About this artwork
Yohei IV’s interest in bold, colorful designs is on full display in this vase shaped like a “prunus vase,” or meiping (Japanese meipin). It has two colors of amaranthus on a yellow ground. It follows a design appearing on a sleeve-shaped vase by Yohei III. Yohei IV uses bright spring-green dots of overglaze enamel to suggest a ground plane in his yellow environment; he also uses red and magenta accented with wild gold cascades of dots for two plants he places on opposite sides of the vase, one m...