Donor: Ilse Martin Fang / Culture or time period: Chinese / Function: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Donor Ilse Martin Fang Culture or time period Chinese Function 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama

Hearst Museum object titled Compass - sun dial, accession number 9-21280, described as Compass - sun dial. Wood. Folding sun dial to be raised by notches for each of the twelve parts of the year. 5.5 cm x 11.5 cm x 1.7 cm H.

Hearst Museum object titled Fabric, accession number 9-21361, described as Piece of fabric for a child’s garment on Mid Summer (dragon-boat) festival. Gold (for sulphur) ground with tiger, his prey, and the poisonous animals: frog, lizard, snake, spider, centipede. 34 x 37.2 cm. Mounted with scotch tape on cardboard.

Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 9-21249, described as Headband for an elderly woman or widow. Cobalt blue cotton with triple black border suggesting pleats. Black tape appliqued in relief in a chrysanthemum and orchid pattern. Blushing pink flannel lining. Braided button and loop closure. Headband length 48 cm; height 6.2 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 9-21248, described as Headband for a married woman. Cobalt-blue patterned silk between broad, black satin upper and lower borders. The lower border ends in appliqued cloud pattern edged in green and silver. Borders finely and colorfully embroidered in a pattern of flowers, Buddha-hand citrus fruit, bats and butterflies. Pink cotton lining, violet braided button and loop closing. Borders outlined in green piping; the blue center strip additionally in white and gold. Headband length 50 cm; height 6.5 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 9-21252, described as Headband for a widow. Blue patterned silk with broad black satin border and a narrower black satin strip inside the border. Round pearls at center, top, and bottom. Apricot-colored cotton lining. Braided button and loop closing; 18 cm long narrow lace ends looped around button stem. All black cotton. Length of headband 50 cm; height at center 6.2 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 9-21247, described as Headband for a young woman. Violet-patterned silk center, blue satin ends. Blue satin lower piping; black on top. Upper border cerulian blue with a gold-thread-outlined yellow satin applique wave frieze resting on red, pink, and white piping. Violet center panel topped and underlined by a yellow, loosely woven tape, with a red-dot-on-black-bar pattern. Lower border tells the tale of the English China Willow pattern: magpies forming a bridge in heaven for the cowherd to meet his bride, the weaver’s daughter. Various stitches in corded and flossy silk thread on white satin. Clouds appliqued onto the blue ends in maize-colored, patterned silk, outlined with a violet woven tape with blossom-and-dot pattern in white; and silver thread. Apricot-colored cotton lining; no closure. Long edge (lower edge) of headband 45 cm L.

Hearst Museum object titled Leaf with image, accession number 9-21350, described as Leaf with image. Skeleton of Paulownia Imperialis leaf with charcoal or ink design of a saint holding a smoking bowl. 14 x 19 cm. Mounted on permanent blue striated silk in silver and blue frame.

Hearst Museum object titled Pair of spring couplets, accession number 9-21360a,b, described as Pair of spring couplets. Black ink on red paper. “May a thousand good omens gather like clouds, and a hundred kinds of happiness combine here; May you smoothly enter into a new spring and everything follow your heart’s (desire).” Strips 7 x 55.5 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Pair of spring couplets, accession number 9-21352, described as Pair of spring couplets. On blue. Single character for good luck on bottom, purple tinted. Two columns of characters on top. 15 cm bottom character and 89 cm long couplets. Overall width 15 cm. Legend: “Careful to the end, and compliant throughout, (we observe) the ritual of the three years (of mourning). We pursue distant memories and recall constantly with all our heart.

Hearst Museum object titled Pendants, accession number 9-21367a-k, described as Eleven Pendants. Left to right: 1) Fish over gourd (the magician, Chung K’uei catches and/or releases evil spirits in his magic gourd). 2) Butterfly over gourd. 3) Goose over gourd. 4) Velvet gourd over fruit and vegetables: apple, pear, strawberry (?), ?, ?, spring onion; the magician riding the tiger; carrot; eggplant, ?, leek, and a Ho-pao perfume pouch. 5) Buddha’s fingers citrus over a gourd. 6) The magician Chung K’uei with his magic sword on the tiger slaying one of the poisonous threats to children, the centipede. 7) Goldfish over gourd; 8) Tsung-tzu (glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors: the sacrifice, on dragon boat day, to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful, but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) and a snake, another of the five poisonous animals. 9) Magpie on peach blossoms (joy and long life) over gourd. The character “special” on the paper bead below. 10) Rooster (happiness) over gourd. 11) Eggplants over gourd.