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Teapot with Pines
The collection record classifies this work as ceramic. It is dated 1893–1914. Recorded culture or place: Japan.
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- Museum title
- Teapot with Pines
- Date
- 1893–1914
- Culture / origin
- Japan
- Materials and technique
- Porcelain with underglaze blue
- Dimensions
- height with lid: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.); width with handle: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); Diameter: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2022.162
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Side-handled teapots known as kyūsu and hot water coolers, or yuzamashi, are essential components of sencha tea sets. The teapot is, of course, meant for steeping and serving the tea. Yuzamashi are used to cool boiled water to the ideal temperature for the type of tea to be brewed.
This teapot has a pine in underglaze blue on each side. The tip of one of these pines reaches onto the tiny lid, and as with the trees on the Water Cooler with Pines, CMA 2022.163, the trunks are curvy ribbons with little definition. Considering the execution of the two vessels' designs, one might imagine the pot and cooler to have been part of the same set.
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