Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers
1660–1699
- Medium
- Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and iron oxide rim (Arita ware)
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.); height: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
About
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.