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Start Over Collection place Northern China Culture or time period Chinese Accession number Acc.4817
Hearst Museum object titled Army mug, accession number 9-23887, described as Tin army mug. The silver-gray body is cast with a five-pointed star and the slogan “Serve the People” (為人民服務Wei renmin fuwu). The middle character min is enclosed in the star. Aquisition data: Liulichang West, Beijing, Ms. Hao Yu. Purchased 2005 or earlier.
Hearst Museum object titled Beaker, accession number 9-23967, described as Beaker for measuring chemicals: White ground beakers with blue bowstrings on the rim. A and B have small bulge in rim that creates a spout. B) 500 milliliter beaker, volume variance plus or minus 0.012 (500 毫升 量差 +- 0.012). Interior has lines with amounts indicated. Seal on foot: State-private cooperative New Life Enamel Factory (公私合營新生搪瓷廠 上海 gongsi heying Xinsheng tangci chang and picture of duck with numeral 3).
Hearst Museum object titled Beaker, accession number 9-23966, described as Beaker for measuring chemicals: White ground beakers with blue bowstrings on the rim. A and B have small bulge in rim that creates a spout. A) 1000 milliliter beaker, volume plus or minus 1.2% (1000 毫升，量差+-1.2%). Interior has lines with amounts indicated. Seal on foot reads: Swan Brand Shanghai enamel factory no. 5 77.7-12 ( 天鵝牌 上海搪瓷五厂77.7-12 Tian e pai Shanghai tangci wu chang 77.7-12). Purchased 100 RMB each
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 Flask, accession number 9-23850, described as Aluminum hot water flask. A lithographic transfer on a red ground depicts a building complex facing a boulevard with a row of trees and several vehicles. The building resembles the Minorities Palace (民族宮Minzu gong), which would make the broad avenue Chang’an Boulevard. Lights and fireworks that brighten the red night sky likely refer to a National Day celebration, perhaps the tenth anniversary of the PRC in 1959, when the Minorities Palace was completed. A logo is impressed on the bottom part of the thermos: “Sunflower” (向阳 Xiangyang), with a sunflower image and “-2-.” Sunflowers, which continuously turn toward the sun, signified the loyal citizens who turn toward the Communist Party and Mao Zedong. A similar sunflower logo appears on the top of the lid.
Hearst Museum object titled Flask, accession number 9-23852, described as Aluminum hot water flask. On a deep red ground a decal depicts ships plying waves. On the horizon is a red sun; seagulls fly above. Two horizontal lines transcribe Lin Biao’s praise for Mao: “Sailing the sea depends on the helmsman; making revolution depends on Mao Zedong Thought” (大海航行靠舵手 干革命靠毛泽东思想Dahai hangxing kao duoshou, gan geming kao Mao Zedong Sixiang). These are the first two lines of a rousing song that was sung daily during the Cultural Revolution.
Hearst Museum object titled Flask, accession number 9-23851, described as Aluminum hot water flask. The body is decorated with a photographic transfer of a golden wheat field; electrical pylons indicate rural electrification. Hovering over a wheat field are two large red characters outlined in white. They read “Bumper Harvest”. A logo is impressed on the bottom edge of the flask: Sunflower (向阳 Xiangyang), with a sunflower image and marked “-1-.” A similar logo is impressed on the top of the lid, but in a different arrangement.
Hearst Museum object titled Flask, accession number 9-23854, described as Aluminum hot water flask. The red-ground features an elliptical shape with an image of a pavilion on the southern lake of the three lakes at the west side of the Imperial City, Beijing (which is to say, Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound). Willow branches at the top are complemented by a magnolia blossom at the bottom. Onthe upper left is a red inscription in seal script that reads “Fishing Pavilion” (打魚亭Da yu ting). At the top of the image is the “Deer Brand” logo with a deer flanked by the two characters (鹿牌Lu pai) stamped on the surface. “Souvenir of Zhongnan hai” (中南海留念Zhongnanhai liunian) is inscribed below. Acquisition Data: Gift of journalist Melinda Liu, Beijing. 2013-01-10. Lent to Charles B. Wang Center, SUNY Stony Brook, June-Dec. 2017, for the exhibition “The Way of Tea.”

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