Teapot

Museum number:
9-13663a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210913663a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3314
Object count:
2
Description:
teapot with lid, white plastic; (a) teapot; (b) lid; see 9-13662 ab. Specimen solicited from fellow passengers who got on at Atami. This specimen most resembles the ceramic prototype now in disuse. Used for selling individual servings of green tea (O-cha). Lid serves as cup. Teabag immersed in hot liquid. Disposable, have almost entirely replaced old earthernware train teapots, also disposable.
Donor:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Japan
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Teapots (pots) and Teapots (serving vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Teapot, accession number 9-13663a,b, described as teapot with lid, white plastic; (a) teapot; (b) lid; see 9-13662 ab. Specimen solicited from fellow passengers who got on at Atami. This specimen most resembles the ceramic prototype now in disuse. Used for selling individual servings of green tea (O-cha). Lid serves as cup. Teabag immersed in hot liquid. Disposable, have almost entirely replaced old earthernware train teapots, also disposable.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Teapot, accession number 9-13663a,b, described as teapot with lid, white plastic; (a) teapot; (b) lid; see 9-13662 ab. Specimen solicited from fellow passengers who got on at Atami. This specimen most resembles the ceramic prototype now in disuse. Used for selling individual servings of green tea (O-cha). Lid serves as cup. Teabag immersed in hot liquid. Disposable, have almost entirely replaced old earthernware train teapots, also disposable.

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