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    "localId": "140274",
    "label": "Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers",
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    "id": "140274",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dish with Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotus Flowers",
    "description": "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.",
    "date": "late 1600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.246",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.); height: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)"
    ],
    "accession": "1964.246"
}

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    "tec": "Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and iron oxide rim (Arita ware)",
    "tombstone": "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 (Arita ware); diameter: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.); height: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.246",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "周茂叔愛蓮図皿",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 153, no. 157"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 52"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:11:50.298000",
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    "sourceId": 140274,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
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    "med": "Porcelain with overglaze color enamel and iron oxide rim (Arita ware)",
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