Teapot with Birds and Flowers
Unknown Artist
1700s
Medium
Porcelain with overglaze color enamel (Arita ware)
Dimensions
13.3 × 7.8 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
Accession Number
1964.250
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This small vessel was likely made as a teapot for the European export market. The different colored overglaze enamels, orange, blue, green, and yellow, combine with a wiry black outline to form the design of a singing bird on a flowering bough repeated on each side of the pot.