Object class: Legendary beings / Culture or time period: East Asian cultures / Function: 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Fabric, accession number 9-21361, described as Piece of fabric for a child’s garment on Mid Summer (dragon-boat) festival. Gold (for sulphur) ground with tiger, his prey, and the poisonous animals: frog, lizard, snake, spider, centipede. 34 x 37.2 cm. Mounted with scotch tape on cardboard.

Hearst Museum object titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22425, described as Puppet, hand. Dragon King. A. Head: carved wood, light yellow, red mouth, brown, black and green eyes, orange eyebrows, yellow hair, 4 carved dragon heads on top of head, painted yellow, green, pink and red. B. Body and legs: cloth, white. Hands: wood, white, red nails. Boots: wood, black and white. B. Robe: cloth, brown with brown sequins, silver dragon on front and back, blue and white rabbit fur trim. 2 tassles. 50 x 27 cm (19 11/16 x 10 5/8 in)

Hearst Museum object titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22248, described as Puppet, hand. Emperor. A. Head: wood, carved, white with red and black features, black hair. B. Body: cloth, white. Hands: wood, white. Boots: wood, gray and yellow. C. Robe: cloth, green, sequins, orange plastic trim, dragon embrodiery , blue rabbit fur trim. 53 x 31 cm (20 7/8 x 12 3/16 in).

Hearst Museum object titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22372, described as Puppet, hand. Dragon. A. Head: carved wood, white and green, pink mouth, black and brown eyes, pink cheeks, long black hair. B. Body and legs: white cloth. Hands: white wood. Boots: black and white wood. C. Robe: cloth, blue with yellow, pink and red appliques, pink, green, gold and silver couching and sequins, silver mirrors, yellow fringe. 53 x 32 cm (20 7/8 x 12 5/8 in)

Hearst Museum object titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22364, described as Puppet, hand. Dragon King. A. Head: carved wood, dark brown, blue mouth, white teeth, green, brown, black and white eyes, long black hair and beard. B. Body and legs: white cloth. Hands: white plastic. Boots: brown plastic. C. Robe: cloth, brown with green, gold and silver couching, sequins, 2 tassles, yellow and green rabbit fur trim. 55 x 26 cm (21 5/8 x 10 1/4 in)

Hearst Museum object titled Hand puppet, accession number 9-22412, described as Puppet, hand. Dragon King. A. Head: carved wood, light orange with red, green, brown and black features, pink cheeks, long red synthetic hair, green and red wooden dragon on top of head with blue plastic beads. B. Body and legs: white cloth. Hands: white plastic. Boots: wood, gray and yellow. C. Robe: cloth, orange and green, silver couching, purple, green, silver and gold sequins, white, blue and black rabbit fur trim. 55 x 29 cm (21 5/8 x 11 7/16 in)

Hearst Museum object titled Pendants, accession number 9-21367a-k, described as Eleven Pendants. Left to right: 1) Fish over gourd (the magician, Chung K’uei catches and/or releases evil spirits in his magic gourd). 2) Butterfly over gourd. 3) Goose over gourd. 4) Velvet gourd over fruit and vegetables: apple, pear, strawberry (?), ?, ?, spring onion; the magician riding the tiger; carrot; eggplant, ?, leek, and a Ho-pao perfume pouch. 5) Buddha’s fingers citrus over a gourd. 6) The magician Chung K’uei with his magic sword on the tiger slaying one of the poisonous threats to children, the centipede. 7) Goldfish over gourd; 8) Tsung-tzu (glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors: the sacrifice, on dragon boat day, to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful, but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) and a snake, another of the five poisonous animals. 9) Magpie on peach blossoms (joy and long life) over gourd. The character “special” on the paper bead below. 10) Rooster (happiness) over gourd. 11) Eggplants over gourd.

Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-13558, described as Robe. Long tapering sleeves. Center front opening skirt; neckband and apron have tie closing on right side. Neckband is black silk satin. Upper body and sleeves are pieced from curving stripes of light blue and dark brown silk damask, and have deteriorated along shoulder creases. White, blue, and gold deteriorating couched lines on neckband on upper body. Sleeve edges are black silk satin with deteriorating gold brocade. Waist band is green silk satin with center front interlaced satin knot and two hanging tapes. Triangular tapestry aprons in front and back, each with fullface 4 clawed dragon, sacred jewel, sea, clouds in blues and greens on a red ground. Brocade and velvet borders, with one small blue glass ornament on front apron and 2 and a half on back (18 on each originally). Outer edge is white silk satin, painted in green, red, and purple with a dragon face and clouds, all padded with wool. Lower body is all tapestry. Two triangular areas under aprons have cloudlike, multicolored horizontal stripes. Rest of skirt has vertical curving stripes with alternating gold and red grounds. Multicolored leaf and vine pattern in stripes becomes swirls at lower scalloped edge. Black braid couched between each stripe. Pink silk satin lining, deteriorating at neck and front apron. Chinese writing on lining in three places. Deterioration of lower back tapestry edge shows an inner layer of coarse white plain weave wool. Lower skirt and aprons may be from a very old dragon robe, with upper body and padded painting added later. Tapestry areas are Ming designs. Finely woven tapestry, and a very unusual robe, Peking Opera costume, Imperial patronage; Kossu skirt is 17th century, remainder is 18th century (fide John Vollmer of the Royal Ontario Museum, June 1979).

Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-17964, described as Robe w/ typical symbols, 5-toed dragon, water, mountains, clouds, bats, etc., blue & black w/ multicolor embroidery; 2/2 twill, silk embroidery & gold wrapped thread. Neck binding embroidered black gauze & black satin binding are replacements; robe made from "off the shelf" material. Horse hoof cuffs are a later date - do not match robe & commercially dyed. soiled; bug damage, cases of clothes moth embedded in embroidery; gauze at neck damaged, other embroidery split or couching loose. FRAGILE condition. Formal robe; robe c. 1875, cuff c. 1900, neckband c. 1850, fide Mary Hays. 136.5 cm L.

Hearst Museum object titled Robe, accession number 9-5666, described as Robe; blue satin embroidered with large multicolored and gilt paper dragons and gilt paint-wave designs; purple silk lining. Pattern is dragon roundels and breaking waves. CHECK