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Teacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape

Teacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape

1893–1914
(Japanese, 1851–1914)
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Porcelain with underglaze blue
5 x 8.2 cm (1 15/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger 2022.171.5
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This teacup shows a man with a staff walking away from a residence toward a boat, loaded with what might be a musical instrument wrapped for travel.

Description

The theme of this sencha tea set is the Chinese scholar-recluse in an idyllic landscape. Each of the five teacups has a landscape with an architectural structure and some human activity.

This tea set 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
  • ?–2022
    James and Christine Heusinger, Berea, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2022–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Vilbar, Sinead. "Colors of Kyoto: Modern ceramics of Japan.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 2 (2023): 14-17. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 14.
    Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 27, pp. 100–101
  • Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 19, 2023-March 10, 2024).
  • {{cite web|title=Teacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape|url=false|author=Seifū Yohei III|year=1893–1914|access-date=06 December 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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