Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes

1893–1914

Seifū Yohei III 三代清風与平

(Japanese, 1851–1914)

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Culture

Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Medium

One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze

Measurements

Overall: 5 x 13.5 cm (1 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of James and Christine Heusinger 2022.194.5

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

The box for this set of dishes has an inscription on the side noting that they were for a person with the family name Nakamoto.

Description

According to the box lid, this set of six side dishes, or mukōzuke, are “snow-flower style” (sekkashiki), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have six lobes and scalloped edges, are traced with brown iron oxide at the rim. The outside of each bowl is glazed with a very bright pink over the basin and foot, and the inside is left white. From directly above, one sees a snowflake-like shape, and from the side, they seem to float above a rosy ground.