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Sake Cup with Auspicious Plants
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About this work
Seifū Yohei II excelled as a painter, as evidenced by his floral and landscape designs. His works were selected as the best among Kyoto ceramics shown to jurists from Europe and the US, thus paving the way for international recognition of the studio in the late 1800s.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSake Cup with Auspicious Plants (蘭竹菊・松梅図盃), 1861–78. Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878). One of a pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.145.1