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

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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