There are many items in one room with a lot of focus needed as the name
of this Gallery. You really have to spend the time with individually when visit Gallery.
My photos are showing only partial collection. So the best way to study
individual item will be obtaining exhibition catalog "Colors of Kyoto" written by
Dr. Shinya Maezaki and Dr. Sinead Vilbar. It will give you great insight of
Seifu Yohei’s process of their creation in Kyoto during those years...
This is additional photos of Exhibitions items at
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Exihibition is now open and thru 3/10/2024 (Sun).
I hope you enjoy the photos of wonderful items.
We were very excited to see all of these items gifted
to Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. James and Mrs. Christina Heusinger.
Please note, all items showing are not for sale.
Porcelain ewer from the Kyushu Arita oven second part of the 17th century. We only know a few identical models, one, with its lid, is kept in the British museum, another is housed in Tokyo at the Idemitsu Museum and happens to be one of the major pieces of the collection, finally a last one, damaged and without a lid, was sold by Sothebys London on June 1, 1981. To our knowledge there are no others...
Exceedingly rare hard porcelain dish from arita. Painted in yellow, green, blue and red enamels. The decor represents many children, seated in a building in front of a covered vase, perhaps a funerary urn. Dominating the assembly, the central character of a trio is the only one wearing a hat. Above the trio three Chinese characters are drawn in red on a panel. It seems to be a religious ceremony but the youth of the assembly is perplexing. Understanding the 3 characters should solve the enigma...
Antique Japanese tall Satsuma ware vase. Covered in a white crackle glaze and painted with designs of blossoming cherry branches. Extensive raised gold enamel, brightly colored patterns and delicate butterflies.
Age: Meiji Period (1868-1912)
Dimensions: 20 1/4" high x 5 1/4" wide
New volume in the Cleveland Masterwork Series focuses on a studio of important late nineteenth through early twentieth-century Japanese ceramic artists.
This is the first comprehensive look in English at the Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio in Kyoto, from the Meiji period (1868–1912) to the mid Shōwa period (1926–89), the James and Christine Heusinger Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art as its core material...
We are very exciting to let you know Grand opening
of Colors of Kyoto, Seifu Yohei Ceramic Studio
Exhibition at The Cleveland Museum of Art,
08/19/2023 (Sat) thru 03/10/2024 (Sun).
We are showing only 12 pcs here, very fine
Japanese master ceramist artist, Seifu Yohei III,
who was very first ceramist received prestigeous
membership of Teishitsu Gigeiin (Imperial Household
Artisan) in Meiji 26h, 1893 and other Seifu Yohei
generation including grand son...
This Meiji period vase is made of fine white porcelain fashioned after classic Chinese motifs.. The potter, first generation Miura Chikusen, is the same generation as many of the better known Imperial Court artists (Kozan, Siefu, Tozan, etc…) and just as accomplished in terms of mastery of technique, level of artistic expression, and volume of pieces produced...
Arita molded hard porcelain dish. This is one of the first productions for export which were made in small quantities around 1650. It was at this time that the ceramicists of Arita began to cover the edges of some of the porcelain with brown enamel, it is not a trivial gesture because the addition of this brown which is an overglaze enamel alone requires additional firing, which represented an additional cost and above all an additional risk of breakage...
Large hard porcelain bowl from Arita Japan early 18th century. Decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and enamels with three cartouches containing a Buddhist lion (shishi), a carp and cranes on a background of peonies and scrolls. Gold detail. These large bowls are typical of the Imari style highly prized by European royal courts and were present in all palaces. The one presented here has lost its lid, the collector who owns one will be able to adapt it perfectly because the sizes are standard...
Hard porcelain box from the Arita kilns decorated in the Imari style with stylized flowers and scrolls in underglaze cobalt blue and iron red. Gilded details. It is rare to find a box from this period in good condition. Japanese work from the Edo period, end of the 17th century. Diameter 15cm. Good condition.
This is wonderful Japanese Imari cup 3 1/4 in diameter 2 3/8 in height is in good condition with No damage
Only original kiln pin hole and some gold wear
I have other pair total for 4 if you are interested please let me know
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This is nice Japanese Imari cup pair 3 3/4 in diameter 2 3/8 in height is in very good condition with No damage
I have other set total of 4 if you are interested other set please let me know
Pair of cup has some original kiln pin hole and some gold wear to the top from Edo era
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This is nice hand painted Japanese old Imari 9 3/4 in diameter is in very good condition with No damage
Only top rim has goals wear and bottom has original firing from late Edo era
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This is very fine detail Japamese Hirado figure stand stand 6 I’m height 6 in diameter is in very good condition
It has original fire line to the point of finger (please look at my photo)
He is holding sake bottle looks to me original from Meiji Era
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This is hand painted imari plate 7 7/8 in diameter is in very good condition with no damage.
It has nice hand painted work from Edo 18 th century
Mark to the bottom
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This is beautiful hand painted Japanese nippon Noritake box 1 3/4 in height 2 3/4 in diameter is in very good condition with no damage
Only some age wear and green color wear otherwise no hair line chip or repair. Old Nippon mark to the bottom
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A Pair of Kutani Vases. Each decorated with a scene of a figure and two attendants on a terrace. The reverse with floral panels on a red ground. Nine character mark to base. Meiji period 19/20thC
Height; 13.2 cm; Condition; excellent
Blue and white Hirado porcelain reticulated incense burner (kôro). Handles in the shape of komainu lion-guardians (also called shishi in Chinese) and blue geometric foliage decoration.
Hirado porcelain (平戸焼, hirado-yaki) is made in Mikawachi, Nagasaki prefecture (it is also known as Mikawachi-yaki). Its names come from the former Hirado feudal estate...
Small octagonal hard porcelain vase. Decor enamelled with a landscape fenced with hedges of dry branches, there are a prunus, a pine and on the ground young bamboo shoots which would signify the symbolic presence of the "three friends", on the collar is represented a Ho-ho (phoenix) which in Japan symbolizes the Empress. Some details are gold. The style is kakiemon but this small vase is atypical. It is difficult to date and also to locate with precision...
Hard porcelain dish from the Arita kilns. Decor painted in cobalt blue underglaze high-fire. A couple of fallow deer are represented in an autumnal landscape. It would seem that the female is reluctant to fall mating because she is lying down while the male at her side rears up desperately to attract attention. In the background clouds (erotic symbol of the "game of clouds and rain") and a maple tree for autumn. On the right a weeping willow tree symbol of lovers. The small building on stilts se...
Hard porcelain dish decorated in underglaze cobalt blue. The scene represents a pavilion in a garden raised on the edge of a lake, several characters animate it. Probably scholars. The designs are artistically stylized in a very Japanese spirit. In the sky the clouds are drawn in a style typical of this period. The edge is glazed in brown. On the reverse appears the mark "Fuku". The quality is excellent, the blue is bright, the designs precise and the firing perfect. The style and quality are th...
Hard porcelain vase covered with a crackle glaze. Decor of two facing dragons enamelled in an exceptionally bright electric blue, their eyes enamelled in yellow. Two friezes enamelled in green and a frieze of stylized flowers molded in relief on a celadon background. The style and quality of the drawings, enamels and technique suggest a creation by Makuzu Kozan. There is no mark, but the base seems to have been ground, if so, it was probably to erase a mark which would have made it possible to i...
Japanese Meiji period Imari porcelain charger decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamels and gilt highlights with four panels holding bamboo, calligraphy, flying birds, and a variety of blossoming flowers all set against a blue background with gold accented leaves. Three sections of blue waves separated by flying birds encircle the back rim. Circa 1900. 16 3/4" diameter x 2 1/2" high. Very good overall condition. There is typical minor rubbing and wear to the gilt and over...
1900's Japanese Porcelain Vase with Lady Figurine by Makuzu Kozan
It is 5.3 inches (13.4 cm) tall by 3 inches (7.6 cm) wide. it is 0.6Lb.
It has minor rubbing of paint and gold and surface wears and scratches (as seen in the photos).
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Japanese porcelain soup tureen whose shape is inspired by European goldsmith pieces. On the sides two heads of modeled Buddhist lions and on the lid a crown. Simple decor of phoenixes, flowers, plants and waves in the color palette of the Imari style. An old collector's label indicated that this tureen was part of the service of Augustus the Strong. Probably verifiable statement for motivated collectors. From memory, a Japanese porcelain sauce boat whose shape was also inspired by European gold...
19th century Japanese Imari charger with figures of samurai on a vivid red enamel ground. 18 1/2" in diameter.
Ko Kutani "mountain bowl" enameled in yellow, aubergine, green and blue with a mountain landscape. Fu Ku mark. Edo/Tokugawa period. 8 1/2 across, 3 1/2" high. One of two of this type currently available.
A very unusual “klapmuts” form bowl decorated with three near identical panels composed of a scene of Chinese boys, karako, in the quise of it would appear of monks. The main figure wearing a Buddhist crown is flanked by acolytes with Chinese Fans, presumably preaching to the remaining boys, who don’t seem to be paying a great deal of attention. One boy in particular diametrically opposite the figure bearing the Buddhist crown contemplates a large wine jar.
Various sprigs of flowers, ...
19th century Japanese Ko-Kutani bowl with painted mountain landscape. Fuku mark.
Arita hard porcelain dish. The decoration is painted with stylized flowers in underglaze cobalt blue and enamelled with medallions. The edge is coated with a thick chocolate brown enamel, typical. Japanese work from the end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th. It is a rare artistic model. Below a mark drawn in blue and traces of pernettes. Good condition. Some enamel skids. Diameter 195mm.
Hard porcelain dish, painted in cobalt blue under glassure. Decor typical of the second half of the 18th century. Japanese work, Arita kilns. Below are drawn 6 Chinese characters, apocryphal mark of Emperor Ming Tchenghoa. The shibata collection of the Porcelain Museum in Arita hosts a dish with a similar decoration.
Good condition. Diameter: 215mm
Arita fine porcelain tea bowl, decorated with dragons and stylized flowers, painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Japanese work from the early 18th century, perhaps a little earlier. Good enamel quality, pretty deep blue, excellent firing. Well drawn. This type of bowl is rare. Below are 6 Chinese characters that we have not translated.The top edge is coated with brown iron oxide pigment. Good condition. Height: 95mm.
We have a second.
Large Imari style hard porcelain dish. Landscape and flower decoration in underglaze grand feu cobalt blue and low-fired irond red enamels, gold details. Japanese work from the end of the 17th century, Arita kiln. Below are traces of typical porcelain shards marks. Good condition, no restoration. Some wear from use visible on photos. Diameter: 36cm.
A pair of hexagonal deep cups, choko, or mukuzuke each decorated with two Tojin figures in gilt set against an underglaze blue ground, with panels of brocade patterns alternating with cylindrical rolls of silk brocade (orimono) bound with auspicious kara kusa. The rim decorated with lappets containing partially obscured brocades, rolls of brocade (orimono), and hat of invisibility (kakuregasa), representing the eight precious objects, takara-mono. The interior of the bowl decorated with a Ta...
Circa 1870s-90s Japanese Hirado porcelain vase with a globular body raised on a short footrim and rising to a slender, knopped neck with everted mouth and galleried rim. Decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with a falcon perched on the bole of a gnarled pine tree, a band of lappets around the foot, and the rim with a continuous key-fret border, it is in excellent condition. Measures 10.5" high x 6.5" diameter