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Dish with Lotus in Rui-Head-Shaped Cartouches

Dish with Lotus in Rui-Head-Shaped Cartouches

mid-1800s
(1615–1868)
Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)
Diameter: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.); Overall: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.258
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

A ruyi is a curved decorative object with a head like a cloud or lingzhi mushroom.
  • ?-1960
    (Mathias Komor, New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin)
    1960-1964
    Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1964-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • 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. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 151, no. 154
  • The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).
    The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 30-September 5, 1982).
    Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961).
    Exhibition of Old Japanese Ceramics and Chinese Fine Arts. Osaka, Japan (1934).
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