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    "localId": "519586",
    "label": "Teapot with Pines",
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    "id": "519586",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Teapot with Pines",
    "description": "Side-handled teapots known as <em>kyūsu</em> and hot water coolers, or <em>yuzamashi</em>, are essential components of <em>sencha</em> tea sets. The teapot is, of course, meant for steeping and serving the tea. <em>Yuzamashi</em> are used to cool boiled water to the ideal temperature for the type of tea to be brewed. <br><br>This teapot has a pine in underglaze blue on each side. The tip of one of these pines reaches onto the tiny lid, and as with the trees on the <em>Water Cooler with Pines, </em><a href=\"http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.163\"><u>CMA 2022.163</u></a><u>,</u> the trunks are curvy ribbons with little definition. Considering the execution of their designs, one might imagine the pot and cooler to have been part of the same set.",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.162.a",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "creators": [
        299428
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.162.a/2022.162.a_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.162.a/2022.162.a_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.162.a/2022.162.a_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.); width with handle: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.162.a"
}

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    "tec": "Porcelain with underglaze blue",
    "tombstone": "Teapot with Pines, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Porcelain with underglaze blue; diameter: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.); width with handle: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.162.a",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "The teapot's box has a seal of Yamamoto Shōseidō, a shop in Osaka that sold fine ceramics.",
    "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. 18, pp. 92–93"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.162.a",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:06:54.381000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.162.a/2022.162.a_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 519586,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Porcelain with underglaze blue",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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