Water Cooler from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape
Medium
Porcelain with underglaze blue
Dimensions
5.4 × 11.9 × 7.4 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.171.2
Tags
Asian (from 1900 to present)male
About this artwork
The kidney-shaped water cooler, yuzamashi, 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 over and carrying a heavy parcel tied to a pole over his shoulder, struggles to make his way up a hill to the site. The cooler also has a pair of applied nyoi staff-head forms for resting the tips of one’s thumb and index finger.