Collection place: East Asia / Collector: Ilse Martin Fang / Function: 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Paper decorations, accession number 9-21324, described as Paper decorations for New Year’s. Set of two dozen red paper flags with cutout character ts’ai (talent or wealth). Lower half: Chinese character in a pumpkin shape. Upper half: cracked ice with plum blossoms (?). Each flag to be attached to a piece of furniture and at doors and windows for the New Year. (Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: The flags were pasted onto furniture.) Held together by a paper thong. Gold-leaf coin with four beads around it in center. 6.8 cm x 10.5 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Pillow end, accession number 9-21258, described as Pillow ends. Piece of red rayon for ends of neck pillow. Patterned coarse weave to be cut in half. Either end has character for “Double Joy” embroidered in satin stitch flanked by a plant design coarsely drawn and miserably embroidered. Mounted in paper. (Donor’s notes) Fabric 16.5 cm L, 9.8 cm W.

Hearst Museum object titled Pillow ends, accession number 9-21254a,b, described as Pillow ends. Pair of green broadcloth panels on cobalt blue broadcloth, framed, from the inside out, by a heather-colored, patterned weave piping, a black broadcloth frame, and the same width of the blue broadcloth. Embroidery in gold and silver thread overlay, secured with red silk thread. a) Double coin, gourd, and bat. b) cock and moth on coxcomb. Panel width: 17 cm; height: 8.5 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Table cloth, accession number 9-21253, described as Blue block-printed white cotton cloth. Peonies, plum blossoms, butterflies. Two 35 cm-wide lengths sewn together to make a table cloth. Unhemmed, 58 cm L.