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"description": "Although the teapot here is stored in a separate box from the five cups, these six pieces may once have been part of a tea set that included other tools such as a water cooler. The teacups have orchid flowers on both sides in underglaze blue, as well as a blue band inside the footring. The teapot has the same design and a blue band painted around the bottom of the lid\u2019s knob.
The cups\u2019 long wood storage box is stamped on the exterior, over the lid and base, with a small red seal reading \u201cSat\u014d.\u201d The same seal appears on five small squares of yellow textile, one placed in the bottom of each compartment in the teacup storage box. These are additional to the customary yellow cloths stamped with a \u201cSeifu\u201d seal. Interestingly, four of the Seif\u016b cloths are stamped with an ovoid seal, while the remaining cloth, which is a slightly lighter color, has an unusual seal that is not quite gourd-shaped and with the f\u016b of Seif\u016b in a stylized, unrecognizable form. The teapot has its own box with a Sat\u014d seal and is wrapped with an orange textile stamped with the same unusual Seif\u016b seal.
A set with a very similar surface design is in the Brooklyn Museum. The Brooklyn set has a water cooler and a small pitcher, in addition to the teapot and cups, and all are in a single storage box. This box records the tea tools as made with kanpakuji, or \u201cbright-jewel white porcelain,\u201d counted among Yohei III\u2019s most important inventions, and carved images. In fact, both sets have a white surface much closer in coloration to the cool white of porcelain clay used in Kyoto at the time, and the designs are simply painted. The Brooklyn set was thus likely mismatched at some point with a box intended for another tea set. Nonetheless, the box may have helped prevent the set\u2019s original components from being dispersed, and the set itself provides insight into how the other tools from the present set may have looked.",
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