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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
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140279
label
Teapot with Birds and Flowers
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object
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1
Source metadata
id
140279
contentType
object
title
Teapot with Birds and Flowers
description
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.
date
1700s
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80038277
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
height with lid: 13.3 x 7.8 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1964.25
Source extras
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Porcelain with overglaze color enamel (Arita ware)
tombstone
Teapot 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
titleInOriginalLanguage
色絵花鳥文水注
collection
Japanese Art
didYouKnow
The wood storage box for this pot refers to it as a<em> suichū</em>, which means water ewer.
citations
citation
<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 118, pp. 81–82
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Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
updatedAt
2026-05-29 07:12:01.479000
sourceId
140279
dept
Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Porcelain with overglaze color enamel (Arita ware)
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1
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photo
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