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Lid for a Teapot from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape
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This tea set with idyllic lakeside Chinese landscapes has a side-handled pot called a <em>kyūsu</em>, used for steeping, straining, and serving tea. Unlike some others, this set also has a <em>yuzamashi</em>, a container used to cool boiled water to just the right temperature for the best flavor when steeping. Seifū Yohei III’s painting teacher, Tanomura Chokunyū (1814–1907), made a visual record of famous <em>sencha</em> events that shows how these kinds of porcelains fit with objects such as a stove and kettle to form a complete set of utensils for tea preparation, and with ensembles of decorative objects meant to inspire creativity
| Artist / Maker | Seifū Yohei III |
|---|---|
| Date | 1893–1914 |
| Culture / Origin | Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912) |
| Medium | Porcelain with underglaze blue |
| Dimensions | Lid: 2.5 x 4.5 cm (1 x 1 3/4 in.) |
| Department | Japanese Art |
| Type | Ceramic |
About the Artist
Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914) Full biography →
Provenance & Source
Image & data: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0 / Public Domain.
Condition
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