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Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-23597, described as Object Name: Bowl Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16 cm Date: Great leap Country: People’s Republic of China Description: The exterior decorated in red with repeated motifs of a horse galloping over cotton balls. The house carries a stylized bundle of wheat; the character “abundant” (丰feng) is on the saddle blanket. The horse alternates with a cluster of symbols of worker, peasant, soldier alliance above which is an inscription reading: Communism is good (社会主义好 shehui zhuyi hao); the interior embossed with two characters. Inscription: Red circular kiln mark on foot: “Product of Zi River porcelain factory, Yiyang” (益陽資江瓷厂出品 Yiyang Zijiang cichang chupin) Place of Origin: Yiyang, Hunan Province Condition: Good with some wear Acquisition Data:

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 9-23884, described as Porcelain tray. Round tea tray with black and pale green landscape. Both landscape and inscription show signs of wear. Mountains piled up fill lower left quadrant. Two old trees have been repeatedly pollarded leaving many white scars on their trunks. Two figures at bottom center—the one in the lead carries a walking staff, the one who follows may be carrying a parcel—climb up a mountain cleft. Their presumed destination is the pavilion on a promontory visible to the right of the smaller tree. On the lower right a river stretches into the distance. Acquisition Data: Baoguosi, Beijing, with Miriam Clifford, 26 September 2002.

Hearst Museum object titled Tray, accession number 9-23885, described as Porcelain tray. The landscape is a composite of traditional elements: two pine trees, two boats on water at right, two men (unusual that they are seated on ground), one gesturing toward the sail boats. At the left are three houses. Many of these elements—such as the outlines of the rocks, the houses, the trunks and branches of the pines, the seated men—are rubber stamped and then hand painted with greens, browns and blues. The poetic line seems to be hand brushed. Acquisition Data: Panjiayuan. 2003-2-15.