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    "localId": "519478",
    "label": "Teacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape",
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    "id": "519478",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Teacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape",
    "description": "The theme of this <em>sencha </em>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.<br><br>This tea set has a side-handled pot called a <em>kyūsu</em>, used for steeping, straining, and serving tea. Unlike some others, this set also has a <em>yuzamashi</em>, a container used to cool boiled water to just the right temperature for the best flavor when steeping. Seifū Yohei III’s painting teacher, Tanomura Chokunyū (1814–1907), made a visual record of famous <em>sencha</em> events that shows how these kinds of porcelains fit with objects such as a stove and kettle to form a complete set of utensils for tea preparation, and with ensembles of decorative objects meant to inspire creativity",
    "date": "c. 1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.171.7",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.171.7/2022.171.7_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 x 8.2 cm (1 15/16 x 3 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.171.7"
}

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    "tec": "Porcelain with underglaze blue",
    "tombstone": "Teacup from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape, c. 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, 2022.171.7",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "A fourth cup shows a humbly dressed man with a broad-brimmed hat lugging a package tied to the end of a rod slung over his shoulder. In front of him is a two-story building flanked by deciduous trees and a man resting against the side of a sturdy stone bridge as he looks at a residence, or perhaps a set of roofed gates, further up the path.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Vilbar, Sinead. \"Colors of Kyoto: Modern ceramics of Japan.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>63, no. 2 (2023): 14–17.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 14",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2023-02/page/14/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 27, pp. 100–101"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Goodall, Hollis. \"Seifū Yohei III: Master of Finesse.\" <em>Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America</em> 45, part 2 (2024): 178-193.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 186; Reproduced: p. 187, fig. 5"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.171.7",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:06:10.330000",
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    "sourceId": 519478,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with underglaze blue",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
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    "image_url": null
}

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