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Hearst Museum object titled Jar and lid, accession number 9-13440a,b, described as Night lamp with cover; ceramic. Lamp (a) has small wick holder bowl on tall narrow cylinder pedestal which flares at bottom to wide tripod base with short vertical inner lip (for cover). Very short square feet attached to flat bottom. Cover (b) is a wide cylinder with flat top with small knob attached. 1.3 cm hole drilled through top near side; small 'coin' design pierced through side beneath hole on top. (b) fits over lip of (a) to rest on flat rim. Glossy green glaze on wick holder and pedestal of (a) and top and side of (b). Rim and bottom of (a) and interior of (b) not glazed. Many pin-holes in surface of glaze. H (a) 8.3cm; max Dia. 11.2 cm; H (b) 10.8cm, Dia. 10.8cm Ceramic, fine grain buff clay, wheel thrown. Green glaze Night lamp, cover, wick holder. Cylindrical cover with knob fits over base having mushroom-like burner and three small feet. Mended.

Hearst Museum object titled Paper cutouts, accession number 9-14659a,b, described as Paper -cuts; shiny, gold paper-cut on white background, has multi-colored papers inserted in different parts of the design, is mounted on heavy, navy blue paper. (a) has two flowers with two butterflies. (b) has two Mandarin ducks and two Lotus Blossom flowers. 28.5cm x 22.5xm.

Hearst Museum object titled Sign, accession number 9-14642, described as Sign, carved wood: rectangular plaque with cut corners. Black raised characters on gilded low relief patterned ground. Characters probably a name, possibly reading "South village sand-spit" (the two characters on the left are similar to the compound for Swatow—"sand-spit"). Paper sticker on back reading "Canton" with three characters.

Hearst Museum object titled Sign, accession number 9-14643, described as Sign, wood: rectangular plaque with four black characters in relief on low relief gilded lozange diaper pattern. The words read: "Yuan Chan Mu Hui." First two characters on right probably a name, possibly reading: 'Aged tree meditation hall' or ('Ch;an temple'). Plaque warped. Length: 36.5cm; Width: 12.4cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Sleeves, accession number 9-15151a,b, described as sleeves. Silk. Satin weave, embroidered. Blue ground, blue, green white, and brown designs. Floral, butterfly motives. 24¾ inches by 3½ inches.

Hearst Museum object titled Teapot, accession number 9-13437a,b, described as Tea Pot (a), with lid (b): Yi-hsing stoneware. Small Hexagonal, with slightly convex sides, high shoulder, narrow hexagonal neck. Recessed base. Large ear-shaped handle, "S" shaped spout molded in form of bamboo segments. Slight relief bamboo leaves near spout. Glaze (?) and enamel decoration: Circular medallion on each side, two large, one with pink peonies, other chrysanthemum, with leaves on fine crackled white ground. Two small medallions with pink geometric floral designs on white; two small with same design in dark green on light green. Ground between medallions: dark green cloud patterns on blue-green. Six dark green floral designs on lights-green on shoulder. White neck. Handle and spout gray-blue. Lid (b) flat form with tongue; molded 'stem' finial, and cloud-pattern ground. Base and interior not glazed. Surfaces (a&b) very worn. H. (a) 7.5cm; max L. 17.7cm; H (b) 3.3 max. Dia. 6.9cm Materials: Red-brown stoneware, slab built and molded. Glaze (?) and enamel decoration. Yi-hsing were also known as I-hsing, Yixing and formerly Boccaro. (Port.)