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Teacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTeacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with underglaze blue; 5 x 8.2 cm (1 15/16 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.171.4
