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Teapot for Steeped Tea
(Japan and Korea )
This teapot and the inscribed poem may have been created by Otagaki Rengetsu, a Japanese Buddhist nun. Otagaki was especially renowned for her ability to incorporate pottery and poetry into one work of art. The poem reads:
May the pine wind flowing,
flowing through the house,
brush away the dust of the ages.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1878, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1878 | Exposition Universelle. Paris. |
Geographies
Japan, Kyoto (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 4 13/16 in. (12.22 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1878
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
49.891