Lid for a Teapot with Chrysanthemum Motifs (1912–14): Art, History and Details

Lid for a Teapot with Chrysanthemum Motifs (1912–14) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This side-handled sencha 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.

Object facts

• Title: Lid for a Teapot with Chrysanthemum Motifs
• Date: 1912–14
• Creator attribution: Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914)
• Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and gold
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2022.167.b

A detail from the museum

This teapot with chrysanthemum motifs shows off Seifū Yohei III’s technique of enamels painted over the glaze.

Collection credit

Gift of James and Christine Heusinger

Further reading listed by the museum

• Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.

View the collection record

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