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Bowl with Decoration of the "Three Friends"
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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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBowl with Decoration of the "Three Friends", 1426–35. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and reign (1426-1435). Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; diameter: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1953.631
