Cleveland Museum of Art

Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers

Date

late 1600s

Medium

Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and iron oxide rim (Arita ware)

Culture

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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