id:			154670
accession number:	1989.265.2.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.265.2.b
updated:		2023-04-22 12:24:32.459000

Tea Container (lid) with Plum Blossoms, early 1800s. Aoki Mokubei (Japanese, 1767–1833). Porcelain with underglaze blue; overall: 7.7 x 4.8 cm (3 1/16 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.265.2.b

title:				Tea Container (lid) with Plum Blossoms
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			early 1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1830
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	porcelain with underglaze blue
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Ceramic
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Aoki Mokubei (Japanese, 1767–1833)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 7.7 x 4.8 cm (3 1/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed "Ro Mokubei" on base in underglaze blue.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
	opening date:   1990-07-05T04:00:00
	<i>The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

	title:		Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III
	opening date:   2017-05-21T04:00:00
	<i>Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Mathias Komor, New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin)
	date: ?-1976
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	Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1976-1989
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1989-
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fun fact:


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wall description:
Aoki Mokubei, born into a family of restaurateurs, was a potter, calligrapher, painter, and scholar, and is considered one of the three masters of later Edo period Kyoto ceramics. He specialized in porcelains fashioned after Chinese prototypes, and created works for steeped tea (sencha) such as these matching tea caddies decorated in an underglaze blue called sometsuke—literally “with applied dye.” He signed them on their bottoms. They also have intricately patterned silk sleeves to both beautify and protect them. On the exterior of the lid of the outer wooden box that contains them, it is written that Mokubei inscribed and painted an image on the box. On the interior of the lid, the signature and seals of a former owner are written. Mokubei has signed the lid of the inner box, and a charming ink and light color composition of West Lake in Hangzhou in China covers its three sides. On the fourth side is a long inscription by Mokubei describing the scene.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 143, p. 22; Mentioned: p. 86
	url:		

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