Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "140279",
    "label": "Teapot with Birds and Flowers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "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",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.250",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80038277"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.250/1964.250_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.250/1964.250_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.250/1964.250_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height with lid: 13.3 x 7.8 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)"
    ],
    "accession": "1964.25"
}

{
    "tec": "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"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.250",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:12:01.479000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.250/1964.250_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 140279,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with overglaze color enamel (Arita ware)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.250/1964.250_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "40b631d67781ee21"
}