Object class: Containers for serving and consuming food / Materials: Ceramic (material) / Production place: China - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 9-23501, described as Each is hand-painted with pink blossoms and dark green leaves. On the reverse is painted a grass motif. Double blue bowstring around rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 9-23632, described as Blue-glaze ground body with lobed reserve panels featuring a color decal of Sun Wukong in the act of beating the white-boned demon who is outside the frame. A faded imitation gold rim. Originally accompanied a teapot now in the collection of the British Museum (No. 327).

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 9-23500, described as The small teacup is decorated with a steamship with flag flying and buildings under a brilliant red (actually pink) sun. Double blue bowstring around rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 9-23627, described as Promotional teacups. The exterior of each is inscribed twice with the name of a company in blue, separated by a pink star within a crescent moon. Double green bowstring around rims.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup and saucer, accession number 9-23555a,b, described as Coffee cup and saucer with run-on words, spelling and punctuation errors, the advertising copy in gold script is printed on a diagonal around the cup and on the saucer: "High-Rich Fine porcelain is characterized by superb quality,…Each product is manufactured with great care.the cream-coloured egg-…porcelain guarantees uniformity in itsoutide It looksharmonious,elegant,…needs the power of artisitic conceptiom." A similar practice of arbitrary and inappropriate use of English occurred in Japan in the 1970s, especially on T-shirts and shopping bags. The practice is not unlike the occasional inclusion of Chinese characters in European Chinoiserie.

Hearst Museum object titled Cups, accession number 9-23517, described as Both cups have a blue-glaze ground body with lobed reserve panels featuring a color decal of Sun Wukong in the act of beating the white-boned demon who is outside the frame. A faded imitation gold rim. Originally accompanied a teapot now in the collection of the British Museum (No. 327).

Hearst Museum object titled Cups, accession number 9-23499, described as Promotional teacups. The exterior of each is inscribed twice with the name of a company in blue, separated by a pink star within a crescent moon. Double green bowstring around rims. Inscription: In full-form characters: “Guohua Rubber Shoes” (國華膠皮鞋 Guohua jiao pixie).

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23475, described as Hand-painted decoration. The color scheme is like other late-Qing to early-Republican ceramics (CF. British Museum teapot nos. 17 and 74). In a garden, two ladies sit on either side of a table. Both wear traditional hair-style and robes. Banana leaves in the garden signal relationships (xiangjiao 香蕉 a pun on 相交, which like “intercourse” can imply social and/or sexual relations) combined with the sleeve held to chin (opera gesture for intense emotion) suggest that this is a romantic tryst.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23516, described as The red-ground body is set with an oval reserve featuring a color decal of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, vigorously beating the white-boned demon (a reference not only to the popular novel Journey to the West, but also to the demise of Madam Mao).

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23476, described as Hand potted. A hand-painted slanted label reads: transmitting wealth and status to the world (傳世富貴 chuanshi fugui). It overlaps two drawing of rubbings of Han dynasty tiles. To the left is written in two vertical lines: “Inscriptions from Qin and Han dynasty tiles” (秦漢瓦甎銘文 Qin Han wazhuan mingwen).