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    "localId": "519487",
    "label": "Lid for Teapot with Begonias",
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    "id": "519487",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lid for Teapot with Begonias",
    "description": "This teapot has complex surface treatment: a design of begonias in modulated underglaze blue for the leaves and stems as well as thick overglaze white with incised lines to define the petals, plus small areas of underglaze yellow at their low-relief centers. A band of underglaze blue gives further definition to the lid’s handle, and the area just above the base has a double band of blue above a row of snail-shell curls. <br><br>Unlike many other teapots, which have marks on their bases, this one has “Seifu” incised into one of its sides in relatively large characters. It is the side that would face the host if the teapot were held by the handle with the right hand, which would be the expectation.",
    "date": "1897–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.168.b",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Ceramic"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.168.b"
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    "tec": "Porcelain with underglaze and overglaze colors",
    "tombstone": "Lid for Teapot with Begonias, 1897–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with underglaze and overglaze colors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.168.b",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "This teapot with begonias combines underglaze blue with subtle use of yellow and white enamels.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 24, pp. 94–96"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.168.b",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:06:10.643000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with underglaze and overglaze colors",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
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}

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