明早期 刺繡開泰圖|Welcoming spring
Unidentified artist
15th century · Silk embroidery on silk gauze · Asian Art
In Chinese, both goats and sheep are called yang 羊, which sounds like the word for “sun” (yang 陽). Three goats together, a motif repeated three times here, thus evokes the phrase “three suns welcome spring” (sanyang kaitai 三陽開泰), a wish for an auspicious new year taken from the ancient Book of Change (Yi Jing).
- Artist
- Unidentified artist
- Date
- 15th century
- Medium
- Silk embroidery on silk gauze
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1981
