Dish with a Bee Pollinating a Lotus
Dublin Core
Title
Dish with a Bee Pollinating a Lotus
Subject
Mauryan Period Art
Description
"Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: Diam 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm)
Classification: Ceramics" from The Met description.
This dish gives us an insight that no matter your wealth or social level, if you were skilled and had access to materials, you could make something as beautiful as this. However, skills such as those to make the dish were taught and handed down, so if your family did not possess these skills before, it would have been difficult to learn. This also would have been time consuming, so if you were a laborer or farmer, you would not have had time to do create it.
Dimensions: Diam 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm)
Classification: Ceramics" from The Met description.
This dish gives us an insight that no matter your wealth or social level, if you were skilled and had access to materials, you could make something as beautiful as this. However, skills such as those to make the dish were taught and handed down, so if your family did not possess these skills before, it would have been difficult to learn. This also would have been time consuming, so if you were a laborer or farmer, you would not have had time to do create it.
Creator
India
Source
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date
ca. 2nd century B.C.
Contributor
Sara Ferguson
Rights
Copyright. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Used for educational purposes only.
Type
Image
Collection
Citation
India, “Dish with a Bee Pollinating a Lotus,” World History 1 Online, Spring 2019, accessed October 17, 2026, https://jacknorton.org/1101-online-sp19/items/show/23.