Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon

China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 204

Suggestive of an evening in early spring, and a subject of Chinese poetry, the theme of a flowering plum under a crescent moon first appears in Chinese ceramics in the twelfth century. On this dish, a dramatic rock of the type that was mined at Lake Tai on the border of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, and used for gardens, has been added to the scene.

Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China

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Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China
Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), China

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