Pot depicting Xiwangmu’s birthday celebration
Also titled Pot met de verjaardagviering van Xiwangmu
c. 1645 - c. 1660
- Medium
- glaze, cobalt (mineral), email, porcelain
- Classification
- pot
- Dimensions
- diameter 20 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The elegant woman in the chair is Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West. This gathering is in celebration of her birthday. She watches a dancer performing to music played by a female orchestra. Xiwangmu grows peaches in the Kunlun Mountains. Because her trees only bear fruit once every 3,000 years, immortality is conferred on those who eat them.
