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    "localId": "519521",
    "label": "Lid for a Teapot with Chrysanthemum Motifs",
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    "id": "519521",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Lid for a Teapot with Chrysanthemum Motifs",
    "description": "This side-handled <em>sencha </em>teapot has the lid flush against the body, forming an oblong orb. It is decorated with a sprinkling of similar chrysanthemum motifs in red, green, and purple overglaze color enamels with centers of pale red dotted with gold.",
    "date": "1912–14",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.167.b",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.167.b"
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    "tec": "Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and gold",
    "tombstone": "Lid for a Teapot with Chrysanthemum Motifs, 1912–14. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and gold. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.167.b",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "This teapot with chrysanthemum motifs shows off Seifū Yohei III’s technique of enamels painted over the glaze.",
    "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. 23, pp. 94–96"
        }
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    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.167.b",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:06:29.126000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
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