Rabbit gazing at the moon

Embroidery · 54.37.2

Rabbit gazing at the moon

DATE18th century, Qing dynasty

CULTUREChina

MEDIUMSilk textile and thread

INSTITUTIONThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rabbit, moon disc, and plants form a concentrated motif for studying silhouette, negative space, and nocturnal hierarchy.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 54.37.2 ↗
Public Domain · The Met Open Access (CC0) ↗

01 · EVIDENCE BOUNDARY

What this relationship means

The rabbit-and-moon imagery is visible in the object; its Mid-Autumn link combines festival sources with editorial context.

02 · VISIBLE MOTIFS

Forms to observe

moon rabbitmoon discfoliage

03 · EDITORIAL COLOR

A design reading, not a reconstruction

Jin Se#EACD76

Jin Huang#CF8A14

Moon White#D6ECF0

Dai Lan#425066

△ These colors are selected from the Chinese Color Atlas for contemporary design use. They do not claim to measure or restore the object's original pigments.

04 · CONTINUE THE ATLAS