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Start Over Donor Ilse Martin Fang Accession number Acc.4697
Hearst Museum object titled Belt cord, accession number 9-21343, described as Belt cord. Black, silk, tasselled. Overall length: 130 cm; tassels: 29 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Board game, accession number 9-21449, described as Board game. Cover of board game: The Three Heroes Advance in Office by Virtue of Their Swords (cf. The 3 Musketeers!). Red print on unbleached, stationery-quality paper. To be played with “dice” top, the four sides of which indicate virtue, talent, merit, and corruption. Originally 44.5 cm square.
Hearst Museum object titled Book, accession number 9-21431, described as Book. Vademecum containing 1) the list of Chinese surnames; 2) the Three-Character Classic; 3) the Thousand-Character Primer, all with homophones under each character; 4) inscriptions for all occasions in couplet form; 5) formulae how to sign letters; 6) samples for contracts; 7) fortune-telling: Kuan-yin’s 32 answers to coin-throwing; 8) how to raise horses, cattle, and chicken; 9) calendar for burials. Running on top: illustrations; Chang T’ien-shih’s (the Taoist pope’s) prescriptions for exorcising sickness. Published by the “Old Two-Yu Hall” Publishers, Peking. no date. 13.3 x 20.3 cm. Paper, stitched.
Hearst Museum object titled Book cover, accession number 9-21429, described as Book cover for stitched, Chinese-style volumes. Blue cloth over cardboard. Two loop and bone peg closures. Label for title on upper left front cover. Each panel lined with white paper, the joints with lighter blue material. 15 x 21.5 x 2.4 cm
Hearst Museum object titled Book cover, accession number 9-21452, described as Book cover. Wood. The two boards have inside grooves ending in holes for tapes to run through. Tapes ca. 57 cm long. Boards 18 x 30.3 x .5cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 9-21291a,b, described as a and b: Men’s black satin boots. Cloth soles, donkey leather seam bindings, green at junction of sole to uppers. Cotton lining with glued-in paper manufacturer’s tag. 36.5 cm overall height; sole 8 cm x 23 cm; uppers heel to toe 26 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Boots (footwear), accession number 9-21284a,b, described as a and b: pair of little boy’s silk boots. Shaft sea green satin with yellow, pink and brown chrysanthemums embroidered in satin stitch. Front and back seams piped black to 2.5 cm from top edge. Height 17 cm in front, 11.5 cm in back; width 12 cm. Lining of cobalt blue loose weave cotton cloth loosely stitched to upper edge with rose-colored thread. Uppers joined by side seams instead of the usual seams at tip and heel. Cinnabar red satin with peony pattern embroidered in stin stitch. Shades blue, grey and white. Seams piped black. Mouse grey piping between uppers and inner sole. The latter consists of 0.4 cm-thick, layered cloth covered with originally white, coarse cotton cloth. Twine-stitched to this inner sole the thick white sole, 2.2 cm thick at heel, 2.4 cm at toe-balls, 0.8 cm at bent-up tip. Bottom covered with leather stitched on with long stitches. Overall length of thick sole: 17 cm; overall height of boot: 25 cm; greatest width of sole: 6.2 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Bridal crown, accession number 9-21330, described as Manchu bridal crown. “dien dse”; “dien-shang fei-cui”, “crown covered with kingfisher feathers”. All ornaments backed with the character for “Joy” in pink plush. Some plaques in braided gold wires “cuan si”. The whole on a braided body “tai dse” of wire wound with black satin. (See donor’s accession notes for her drawing of crown.) Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: First, a wire band with black satin for the network would be made. This has cloud, plants, acanthus leaf images. Crown adorned with metal and kingfisher frame; inside each frame have ornament, petals, semi-precious stone like amethyst or river pearls - metal stamens - lotus pod images. “Phoenix zone” in front, for women. The bangles would cover the eyes. Butterfly wings with jade. Double happiness symbols for wedding. Tassels, etc., are all prescribed. Blue kingfisher feathers are glued onto metal background.
Hearst Museum object titled Brush, accession number 9-21327, described as Brush. For clothes? Oblong, nickel-plated plaque handle, latticework showing the character for “Joy” (reads identical front and back). (Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: May say “Long Life”) 1.6 cm long black bristles. Metal part 6 cm high and 3.5 cm wide.
Hearst Museum object titled Brush, accession number 9-21419, described as Brush. Red brush with black bristles to lacquer the hair. Overall length: 15.7 cm; length of sewn-on tuft: 5 cm; length of bristles: 2 cm.

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