Sake Cups with Auspicious Flora
Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878)
1861–1878
- Medium
- Pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue
- Dimensions
- height (each): 3 cm (1 3/16 in.); diameter (each): 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan
About
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.
