Saucer from Maple Leaf-Shaped Saucers
Medium
One of five dishes from a set of ten; porcelain with blue glaze and molded design
Dimensions
2.5 × 9 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.191.2
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About this artwork
These maple leaf–shaped saucers, like Yohei III's five shell saucers CMA 2022.188, have a long, horizontal box with a separate compartment for each piece. Now a set of five, these dishes were originally a set of ten, stored in two boxes of five each. From their housings, which accommodate differing numbers of objects, one can hypothesize that while some items created by the Seifu studio were intended to be acquired in larger sets, and thus were perhaps made to order, others, like these, may have...