Teapot for Steeped Tea

Description Exhibitions Provenance Inscription Credit

Description This small teapot (kyusu) is inscribed with a "waka" poem by Rengetsu I.

Exhibitions

Exposition Universelle. Paris. 1878.

Provenance Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1878, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Poem] Yo no chiri o / yosoni harahite / yukusue no / chiyo o shimetaru / yado no matsukaze; [Translation] May the pine wind flowing, flowing, through the house, brush away the dust, of the ages

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, 1878

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Creators

Otagaki Rengetsu (Japanese, 1791-1875) (?) (Artist)
Kuroda Koryo (Japanese, 1822-1894) (?) (Artist)

Period

mid 19th century (Edo; Meiji)

Medium

stoneware with rice-straw-ash glaze
(Ceramics)

Accession Number

49.891

Measurements

H: 4 13/16 in. (12.22 cm)

Geographies

Japan, Kyoto (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View