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Water Cooler from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineWater Cooler from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with underglaze blue; 5.4 x 11.9 x 7.4 cm (2 1/8 x 4 11/16 x 2 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.171.2
