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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1935.37.33
Title
Paper God: Kitchen God and Wife at an Altar Table, with Qilin Delivering a Son in the Foreground, and with a Calendar for the Year Minguo 21 (1932)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1932
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Henan province, Lingbao
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/206308

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with a printed couplet reading from right to left: "You Yan Shen Si Hai; Mi Mian Ji Ru Shan" ("Oil and Salt Can Fill the Sea; Rice and Flour Pile up Like Mountains"). Probably from Lingbao, Henan.
Dimensions
paper: 40.7 x 26 cm (16 x 10 1/4 in.)
mat: 45.72 x 35.56 cm (18 x 14 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Carl Schuster, Esq.
Accession Year
1935
Object Number
1935.37.33
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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