Tea Set with Chinese Landscapes
Medium
Tea set with tea pot, hot water cooler, and five cups; porcelain with underglaze blue
Dimensions
diam. 8.4 cm · lid: 2.5 × 4.5 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.171
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About this artwork
The theme of this sencha tea set is the Chinese scholar-recluse in an idyllic landscape. The teapot depicts two friends playing a board game on a promontory beyond a two-storied residence, while another figure comes across the entry bridge bearing bags of provisions, hung from the ends of a pole balanced across his shoulders. The kidney-shaped water cooler has a scene of a man gazing at a full moon in a dramatic mountain-scape stretching before a large compound in the woods. Another man, hunched...