# Pot depicting Xiwangmu’s birthday celebration

- By: anonymous
- Date: c. 1645 - c. 1660
- Medium: glaze, cobalt (mineral), email, porcelain
- Classification: pot
- Dimensions: diameter 20 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-NM-6462--1f93f34eb2f0fc66da3d680adead7e85)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/EDZUG/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.