Teapot and lid from a sencha set with maple

Sencha tea service with maple (British Museum 2014,3064.27.a–g) — Image: © The Trustees of the British Museum · © The Trustees of the British Museum, all rights reserved; not open licence. Small credited thumbnail (max 400 px) linked to source at the owner's direction · Source

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The teapot from a sencha tea service decorated with maple in the Meizan workshop. The museum catalogues the stoneware body as made in Kagoshima and the decoration as done in Osaka, a clear illustration of how the studio decorated bought-in blanks.

Curatorial notes

Stoneware with crackled cream glaze. Workshop name in overglaze gold on the base. Donated by David and Anne Hyatt King through the Art Fund. Recorded on display in Room 93.