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Teapot with Birds and Flowers
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTeapot with Birds and Flowers (色絵花鳥文水注), 1700s. Japan, Edo period (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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.250
