Sweets Bowl with Chrysanthemums
Medium
Porcelain with molded and carved design, underglaze color, and cream glaze
Dimensions
diam. 18 cm · height: h. 8.5 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.207
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About this artwork
Sweets bowls hold the confections enjoyed when drinking tea. This bowl and CMA 2022.206 offer an important lesson in appreciating Yohei IV’s ceramic practice. While they have the same design and shape and are made with the same materials, the execution of the pieces makes them entirely different after close inspection, thereby demonstrating the range of possible production results from a single template. Each bowl has the same composition of two different types of chrysanthemum flowers, one with...