Sake Cup with Auspicious Plants
Cleveland Museum of Art

Sake Cup with Auspicious Plants

Seifū Yohei II (Japanese, 1844–1878) · 1861–78

One of a pair of sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The plum and the pine are two of the "Three Friends of Winter," auspicious symbols of a cultured scholar's virtues: steadfastness, resilience, and flexibility.

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