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Oct 14, 2010
Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers
Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers
周茂叔愛蓮図皿
late 1600s
Japan, Edo period
(1615-1868)
Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and iron oxide rim
Diameter: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.); height: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.246
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Many artists typically applied the theme of the "four loves," which includes the lotus, to sliding-door paintings and screens. This plate borrows the motif from painting and applies it to the kakiemon type of multicolor porcelain, portraying the Chinese Song Neo-Confucian scholar Zhou Dunyi (also known as Zhou Maoshu) appreciating the lotus. Humorously, the Japanese potter depicted Zhou seemingly appreciating both the lotus and the young lady with a lotus on the boat.
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