Cleveland Museum of Art
Bowl with Decoration of the "Three Friends"
- Date
- 1426–35
- Medium
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Culture
- China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and reign (1426-1435)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 130943
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Pine, bamboo, and plum blossom are known as the “Three Friends” of winter as metaphors of the scholar-gentleman’s ideal of integrity, endurance, loftiness, and purity.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1953: (Mathias Komor [1909–1984], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1953–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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