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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. 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. Yohei III had the silver lids produced outside the studio by metalwork specialists. For this tripod, they decorated the lid with a variety of flowers.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineIncense Burner, 1893–97. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with molded design, crimson glaze; height: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.); diameter: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.178.a
