Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers (late 1600s): Art, History and Details

Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers (late 1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers
• Date: late 1600s
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: Japanese Art
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1964.246

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
• Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.

View the collection record

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