Teacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape
Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
c. 1893–1914
Medium
Porcelain with underglaze blue
Dimensions
5 × 8.2 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.171.7
Tags
Asian (from 1900 to present)male
About this artwork
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–...