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Teapot with Birds and Flowers

色絵花鳥文水注

1700s
(1615–1868)
Porcelain with overglaze color enamel (Arita ware)
height with lid: 13.3 x 7.8 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.250
Location: not on view
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The wood storage box for this pot refers to it as a suichū, which means water ewer.

Description

This small vessel was likely made as a teapot for the European export market. The different colored overglaze enamels, orange, blue, green, and yellow, combine with a wiry black outline to form the design of a singing bird on a flowering bough repeated on each side of the pot.
Teapot with Birds and Flowers

Teapot with Birds and Flowers

1700s

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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