1935.37.45: Paper God: Tethered Horse for the Kitchen God, Arbiter of Fate ("Si Ming Zhu")
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1935.37.45
- Title
- Paper God: Tethered Horse for the Kitchen God, Arbiter of Fate ("Si Ming Zhu")
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- early 20th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shaanxi province, Xi‘an
- Period
- Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/206328
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed inscription reading: ""Si Ming Zhu" ("Arbiter of Fate")". Probably from Xi'an, Shaanxi; probably related to 1935.37.44.
- Dimensions
- paper: 10.3 x 9.6 cm (4 1/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Carl Schuster, Esq.
- Accession Year
- 1935
- Object Number
- 1935.37.45
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Felicity Lufkin, Folk Art and Modern Culture in Republican China, Lexington Books (Lanham, Boulder, New York, and London, 2016), p. 75, fig. 3.22
Verification Level
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