Sake Pourer with Flowers
Medium
Porcelain with molded design, overglaze color enamel, and metal handles
Dimensions
diam. 10.1 cm · width with spout: w. 13.1 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.161.a
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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...