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Potpourri Vase with Cover | Cleveland Museum of Art

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This vase was likely made by the celebrated Parisian ceramics firm of Edmé Samson (1810–91). To cater to the resurgence in taste for 18th-century designs, the Samson firm specialized in making reproductions of rare 18th-century European porcelains, especially those from firms that had already...

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Drinking Cup from Dining Set with Plum Blossoms and Cracked-Ice | Cleveland Museum of Art

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Each item in this set has a delicate low-relief design of flowering plum branches over scattered, intersecting lines meant to resemble the cracked-ice surface of a frozen body of water and is signed on the base in gold pigment. While Yohei II produced many fine works in underglaze blue, like...

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Butterflies from Album of Illustrations for the Tale of Genji | Cleveland Museum of Art

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This album contains illustrations for the classic literary work the <em>Tale of Genji,</em> authored in the 1000s by Murasaki Shikibu, an aristocrat of the Heian period (794–1185) court. The scenes are painted in the “white drawing” (<em>hakubyō</em>) mode, in which a fine ink line is used to...

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