Object name: Tray / Collector: Alfreda Murck / Culture or time period: Chinese cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23879, described as Plain pale-tan body, dark brown bowstring on the rim. Acquisition Data: Panjiayuan, Beijing, with Vernon Eagle, RMB 50, 2009-09-27.

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23871, described as Enamel tray. The white enameled body has a stenciled design of a red blossom (peony? rose?) in the center against turquoise leaf patterns. Green edge and a green bowstring. The back is plain white. Acquisition Data: Baoguosi, Beijing, purchased from Zheng Haisheng with Jen. RMB 150. 2010-07-08.

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23886, described as Porcelain tray. Framed by bamboo, two children are in dialogue. A small boy kneels, facing the older child, a girl, who is reading a pamphlet. He raises a hand as if asking a question. Judging from the open satchel with documents, she is reading Supreme Directives from Chairman Mao. This scene may be illustrating a central theme of “revolutionary education”: dear as your mother and father are to you, Chairman Mao is still dearer. The edge of the rim has a silver bowstring. Acquisition Data: Purchased from Mr. Liu, Liulichang West, Beijing, with Jan Stuart, 23 August 2004

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23868, described as Enamel tray. On a white background is a transfer design of a peacock standing on a rock surrounded by blossoming peonies. Additional pigments were hand-painted in green, blue and red. The back is deep blue. Acquisition Data: Panjiayuan, Beijing w/ Miriam Clifford. 70 rmb. 2003-2-15

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23872, described as Enamel tray. The white body is stenciled with a red five-pointed star and inscriptions “Academy of Political Science” (政治學院Zhengzhi xueyuan), “0463,” and “1954.10.” A blue bowstring decorates the rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23876, described as Enamel tray. The tray has a yellow ground, on which there is stenciled a scene of small houses next to a stream. Pale green edge and cobalt bowstring decorates the rim. Acquisition Data: Panjiayuan, Beijing, Mr. Zheng鄭, 2 nd floor, with Virginia Bower. RMB 75. 2008-06-21.

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23881, described as Enamel tray. The Monument to the Heroes of the Revolution is pictured at the right. On the left is a quotation by Mao Zedong, starting with “Tens of thousands of martyrs” (成千成万的先烈 Chengqian chengwan de xianlie). Pale green edge and black bowstring. Acquisition Data: Panjiayuan, Beijing, purchased from Wang Zhanhua王占华, woman vendor from Shenyang, RMB 80, 2006-03-12

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23849, described as Glass tray. The lobed translucent pink-tinted glass has a circular design. A five-pointed star in the center floats above the characters for “Happiness” (幸福xingfu). A wheat garland tied with a bow curves around the bottom half of the circle. The outer ring has the message “Safeguard world peace” (保卫世界和平 baowei shijie heping) in simplified characters. Baoguosi, Beijing. 2004-8-19

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23883, described as Porcelain tray. Oval tray with fluted rim, which was originally gilded. The painting shows a bird’s-eye view of a garden with multiple pavilions surrounded by walls and a small pleasure boat on a pond. The inscription identifies it as Hundred Flowers Islets (百花洲Baihua zhou) in Jiangxi province.

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23873, described as Enamel tray. On a yellow ground, the tray is stenciled with a scene of a mother and her daughter standing on a riverbank under maple trees, with the mother pointing to the Beihai Park across the river. Pale blue edge and cobalt blue bowstring decorates the rim. In the 1950s imperial parks were opened to the general public.