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Flower Vase
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This flower vase has a tall, slightly flared foot and bulbous body with a slimmer neck. It is completely undecorated but for the hisoku , or “mysterious color,” glaze. Its box lid has a red seal with a flower on it, a rather unusual feature also seen on the box for the green-glazed water container that belonged to the Hosokawa family (see CMA 2022.197 ) .
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineFlower Vase, 1912–14. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porecelain with green glaze; height: 35.5 cm (14 in.); diameter: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.233
