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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-23860, described as Enamel shallow bowl. The yellow-ground shallow bowl is decorated with abstract red and orange pattern on the interior rim, and a blue bowstring to the rim. Acquisition Data: Panjiayuan Furniture Building, 2nd Floor Beijing. 20 RMB. 2011-11-12.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-23861, described as Enamel bowl. The pale green ground bowl is undecorated accept for a dark-green bowstring on the rim. Acquisition Data: Gift from Palace Museum colleague Hu Chui, 14 December 2011. Mr. Hu was given the bowl as his all-purpose dish when he was a “sent down youth” 知青 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, in 1969.

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-23862, described as Enamel bowl. The white ground bowl is stenciled with a blue hammer, a torch, and a wheat tassel against a red flag. On the interior wall are five flags and a slogan: Do not live off past gains, make new contributions (不要吃老本要立新功Buyao chi laoben yao li xingong), all in red color, encircling the central image. A green bowstring is on the rim. The exterior is stenciled with light green abstract pattern. Acquisition Data: Beijing, 2003-2012

Hearst Museum object titled Lid, accession number 9-23867, described as Lid for oil stove - enamel tray. The top of the lid is decorated with a red design stenciled on white ground. The center, which is slightly higher than the rest of the surface, features four characters “Yongbei Oil Stove” (永備油爐 yongbei youlu). The outer circle is a flame-like pattern. A blue bowstring decorates the rim. This would have been used on the top of a stove.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23904, described as Enamel mug. The front is stenciled with an oval image of a train running on a bridge through a mountainous region. The reverse features a red inscription, stating that the mug was made by the Newly Established Central Construction Bureau of the Railway Administration, No. 6 Construction Bureau, in commemoration of the opening of the Baoji-Chengdu route. Cobalt blue bowstring decorates the rim. The handle is partially decorated in black.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23896, described as Enamel mug. The front features a stenciled decoration of the red Tiananmen Gate and a blue dove above. The back features a long inscription that includes a slogan in the middle: Safeguard Motherland, safeguard peace (保衛祖國保衛和平Baowei zuguo baowei heping). The rest states that the mug was a gift to heroes of the People’s Liberation Army, presented by the Representatives of the People of China in sympathy with the People’s Liberation Army. The top of the body is decorated with a ring of auspicious pattern in sky blue. Cobalt blue bowstring decorates the rim. The handle is partially decorated in the same color.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23927, described as Enamel mug. The white ground is stenciled with a red inscription: “Be like Chairman Mao’s good cadre, comrade Men He” (向毛主席的好干部门合同志学习 Xiang Mao Zhuxi de hao ganbu Men He Tongzhi xuexi). A model of loyalty, Men He (门合 1928-1967) wrote in his diary: ‘All of my thoughts are for Chairman Mao, all of my actions are in service of Chairman Mao. All of my movements follow Chairman Mao closely. All that I do is for Chairman Mao’ 一切想着毛主席、一切服从毛主席、一切紧跟毛主席、一切为着毛主席. Above the inscription are red pine needles against a yellow background. A black bowstring decorates the rim. RMB 50

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23936, described as Enamel mug. The white ground is decorated with the Red Book: Quotations from Mao, accompanied by a rifle and golden wheat tassel inside a brown cog, symbolizing the Worker-Farmer-Soldier Alliance. On the right there is a red inscription: Be united, alert, earnest and active (团结紧张严肃活泼Tuanjie jinzhang yansu huopo). Black bowstring decorates the rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23926, described as Enamel mug. The white ground is stenciled with a branch of snow-laden plum blossom against an azure background. Above in red running script is a poetic couplet from Mao Zedong’s 1962 poem Winter Clouds (冬云Dong yun). RMB 70.

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