Cleveland Museum of Art

Teapot with Birds and Flowers

Date

1700s

Medium

Porcelain with overglaze color enamel (Arita ware)

Culture

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. The wood storage box for this pot refers to it as a suichū , which means water ewer.

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