Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers
Unknown Artist
late 1600s
Medium
Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and iron oxide rim (Arita ware)
Dimensions
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Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
Accession Number
1964.246
About this artwork
This dish portrays Chinese scholar Zhou Dunyi—also known as Zhou Maoshu (1017–1073)—appreciating lotuses, a motif borrowed from Chinese porcelains. The ceramics painter of this work depicted Zhou seemingly appreciating both the lotus and the young lady with a lotus in the boat.