Incense Burner with Peony and Cloud
Medium
Porcelain with molded and incised design, pale pink glaze, and floral openwork silver lid
Dimensions
diam. 13.5 cm · height with lid: h. 12.9 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.204
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
Yohei IV’s incense burner has a scrolling floral pattern of peonies and nyoi staff-head forms around the body and a band of clouds around the collar. These are done in low relief, with incised lines marking the details in the flower petals and leaves. The silver lid has a proliferation of flowers, including lily, peony, and a variety of chrysanthemums. The box lid identifies the subtle pink over an ivory body as “dawn’s light[–glazed] porcelain” (shokōji). After he became an Artist of the Imper...