Sweets Bowl
Medium
Porcelain with yellow glaze
Dimensions
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Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.195
Tags
Asian (from 1900 to present)male
About this artwork
The simply elegant shape of this sweets bowl allows one to fully appreciate its yellow glaze. Like Yohei III’s other monochrome, undecorated pieces, this one emulates Chinese prototypes. The box lid identifies the work’s coloration with an unusual name, hongama kōtekiji. Hongama means “high-fired,” and the inventive phrasing kōteki may mean something akin to “lustrous yellow.”