Bowl with Inlaid Cranes and Clouds Design
Cleveland Museum of Art

Bowl with Inlaid Cranes and Clouds Design

1200s-1300s

pottery
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

An actual event in 1121, which constitutes a groups of cranes hovering above the palace in Kaifeng, the capital of the Chinese Northern Song dynasty, soon became internationally recognized as a heavenly sign about the ruler's virtuous governance.

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