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Lid for an Incense Burner
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About this work
Seifū Yohei III made incense burners in a wide variety of designs and styles. 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. It has a variety of flowers on its lid. The glaze is described as “crimson glaze” ( kōyū ); it is also dappled with dark spots of varied opacity and tiny pores throughout, which gives the container a rich, textured effect.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLid for an Incense Burner, 1893–97. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Floral openwork silver lid. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.178.b
