Teapot from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape
- Medium
- Porcelain with underglaze blue
- Dimensions
- height: 7.4 cm (2 15/16 in.); with handle: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); Diameter with handle: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.); Diameter with spout: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.); Diameter: 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
About
This tea set with idyllic lakeside Chinese landscapes has a side-handled pot called a kyūsu, used for steeping, straining, and serving tea. Unlike some others, this set also has a yuzamashi, 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 sencha 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
