Culture or time period: Imperial dynasties (221 BC–1912 AD) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Porcelain fragment, accession number 1-60316, described as Fragment of Chia Ching porcelain vessel. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

Hearst Museum object titled Porcelain fragment, accession number 1-60306, described as fragment of blue painted Ming (late) porcelain. Attached to 1-77801 and 1-61358 Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

Hearst Museum object titled Porcelain fragment, accession number 1-77801, described as porcelain frag. Attached to 1-60306 and 1-61358. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

Hearst Museum object titled Porcelain fragment, accession number 1-61358, described as Blue painted Chinese porcelain frag. Wan Li. Attached to 1-60306 and 1-77801. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.

Hearst Museum object titled Pottery figure, human, accession number 9-20365a,b, described as a) Figure, ceramic, unglazed, hollow; Dignitary, Tang Dynasty, male; hands folded in front, wearing wide-sleeved robes and official cap; polychrome pigments; restored and repainted; b) hardwood stand, dark brown; recessed for base of figure above; cracked

Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 9-21647, described as Purse; Imperial Era. H=40.6cm, W=25.4cm; Oval shape (folds to half oval). Red silk ground w/ pink emborodered peony, blue/green leaves and other flowers in white, purple and pink. some detail of flowers done in forbidden stitch. Edge decorated w/ fine woven tape plus black bias tape. Inner front is green silk bordered by 2 different finely woven tapes . Lining is pink cotton and has been cut at the bottom [to hide coins under lining]. Front and back are joined by black cloth [cottton or linen] that is decorated w/ 15 finely done endless knots of couched metalic thread.

Hearst Museum object titled Purse, accession number 9-21272, described as Two-faced purse with flaps, probably for flint and tinder. Yellow satin embroidered in satin and stem stitch. One side shows an angler at a pine-banked water with a hut in the background. Fish and fowl below. The other flap shows the flower girl with her basket by the side of a water with the porch of a building in the background. Fish and duck on lower part. Body bordered with 2 cm long black bias stitches, darned on the angler’s side with two rows of white diamonds; on the other side with zigzag-and-hook as a running pattern. That side’s flap continues the zigzag and adds chevron and a four-petaled flower. On the angler’s side, the flap border alternates darned diamonds with another flower, both in white. Under the flaps, the borders of the body are plain black. (Fide: Ilse M. Fang, 8/28/2001: I always loved this - it’s very practical - there are the embroidered scenes, but when you open the purse, there’s no embroidery under the flaps: very practical.) Center compartment lined with coarse, moon-blue cotton, as is the underside of the flaps, and back of the shallow compartments under them. The front of these compartments is unlined. No signs of hanging straps. Was one flap to be tucked over the belt? Purse 12 cm wide and 11.5 cm high.

Hearst Museum object titled Qian long tong bao, accession number 9-11968a-c, described as coins, set of three identical; each is round, with square hole in the center; obverse side: four Chinese characters, one on each side of the central square; reverse side: 2 characters, to left and right of central square; bronze; used in the Chinese dvination technique, I Ching (The Book of Changes); coins are cupped in hand, shaken, and tossed; the pattern which develops, i.e. the occurence of obverse and reverse sides, after the coins have been tossed six times, forms a series of broken ( - - ) and unbroken (--) called a hexagram; when the hexagram has been obtained, the user consults the I Ching for the answer to specific questions addressed to the oracle; line values for the coin oracle technique, I Ching: obverse side ( with 4 characters) -- yin line with value of 2, reverse side (with 2 characters) -- yang line with values of 3; example throwing: coins tossed six times; 1st toss: obverse, obverse, reverse equals 2, 2, 3 or 7 equals - -; 2nd toss: reverse, obverse, reverse equals 3, 2, 3 or 8 equals --; 3rd toss: reverse, reverse, reverse, equals 3, 3, 3 or 9 equals --; 4th toss: obverse, obverse, obverse equals 2, 2, 2 or 6 equals - -; 5th toss: reverse, reverse, obverse equals 3, 3, 2 or 8 equals --; 6th toss: reverse, obverse, obverse equals 3, 2, 2 or 7 equals - -; note: since the first toss is written from the bottom, etc. the actual hexagram appears as follows: - -; when, in a toss, all - - --- sides are the same in --- - - value, the line is con- --- --- sidered to have changed, - - --- i.e. from - - to --- --- - - thus the hexagram now - - ; changes to: upon consulting the book it is seen that the user has drawn hexagram 48, The Well, with changing lines in the third and fourth places; the hexagram changes to hexagram 47, Oppression (Exhaustion); the user reads the pertinent sections of each hexagram to obtain the answer to his question

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