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Two Dishes
Also titled Twee schotels
c. 2002
- Medium
- glaze, porcelain
- Classification
- platter
- Dimensions
- diameter 11.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Y. Shibata, Tokyo
- 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 hare and the moon are a well-known motif on Japanese porcelain. It relates to the legend of a mythical hare living on the moon. The creature pounds rice in a mortar for mochi – sweet rice cakes with the same round shape as the lunar disk.
