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Teapot with Cherry at Night in Gion
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated 1893–1914. Recorded culture or place: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912).
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- Museum title
- Teapot with Cherry at Night in Gion
- Date
- 1893–1914
- Culture / origin
- Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Materials and technique
- Porcelain with underglaze blue and iron oxide
- Dimensions
- height with lid: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); width with handle: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.); Diameter: 8.5 cm (3 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2022.165
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This side-handled sencha teapot with the cherry tree has a nearly spherical shape, and its recessed lid has an ovoid knob. It has both blue and a purplish brown under the glaze for the blossoms and embers on one side, and the vertical calligraphy identifies the tree as a cherry tree at night in the Gion area of Kyoto. To the right of the tree, smoke billows from a small lantern fire in a basket suspended on a post.
In terms of collecting history, a paper inserted into the box of Teapot with Cherry at Night in Gion is of interest. It is a flyer for Yamamoto Shōseidō, a shop (no longer extant) that sold fine Kyoto ceramics in Osaka.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of James and Christine Heusinger · CC0
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