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Incense Burner
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About this work
Seifū Yohei III made incense burners in a wide variety of designs and styles. Their silver lids were produced outside the studio by metalwork specialists. This tripod incense burner has a distinctive red-colored glaze and linear molded decorations that run around the base of the collar and down the legs.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineIncense Burner, 1893–97. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with molded design, crimson glaze, and floral openwork silver lid; height with lid: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.); diameter: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.178
