Bowl with Decoration of the "Three Friends"
1426–1435
- Medium
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); Overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
About
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.