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Hearst Museum object titled Beaker, accession number 9-23967, described as Beaker for measuring chemicals: White ground beakers with blue bowstrings on the rim. A and B have small bulge in rim that creates a spout. B) 500 milliliter beaker, volume variance plus or minus 0.012 (500 毫升量差 +- 0.012). Interior has lines with amounts indicated. Seal on foot: State-private cooperative New Life Enamel Factory (公私合營新生搪瓷廠上海 gongsi heying Xinsheng tangci chang and picture of duck with numeral 3).

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23957, described as Enamel mug. A red inscription spray painted on white ground indicates that the mug was a gift following the victory of the defense of the Chinese border with Vietnam. “Fighting back in self-defense; Protecting the border. Remembering Victory. Presented by the Central Relief Organization, March, 1979 (自衛还击,保卫边疆胜利纪念中央慰問団贈一九七九年三月Ziwei huanji, baowei bianjiang. Shengli jinian. Zhongyang weiwentuan zeng. Yijiuqijiu nian san yue). Tiananmen gate is stenciled on the opposite side. Identical stencils, front and back, on 112 above.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23894, described as Enamel mug. A red five-pointed star and the blue inscription are stenciled with spray paint on white ground. Acquisition Data: Baoguosi Zheng Haisheng鄭, with M. Nylan, Terese Bartholomew. RMB 100. 2007-09-20

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23914, described as Enamel mug. The white ground is stenciled with red inscriptions. Cobalt blue bowstring decorates the rim. RMB 100

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23907, described as Enamel mug. The plain pale-yellow ground is undecorated except for a green rim and handle. RMB 20

Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23901, described as Enamel mug with lid. The front is stenciled with “1200” in red. The back features a blue dove with a red beak. Below the image is a red inscription: “State-owned Beijing No. 3 Cotton Textile Factory, 1957” (國营北京第三棉紡织廠 1957 Guoying Beijing disan mian fangzhi chang). Cobalt blue bowstring decorates the rim. The handle is partially decorated in the same color.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug with lid, accession number 9-23906a,b, described as Enamel mug with lid. The white ground is stenciled with a red inscription arranged in three lines. The top line, consisting of two characters “gifting to” (贈给zenggei), is inserted with a dove in the middle. The rest of the two lines states that it was specially made in commemoration of “the hardworking labors for the cause of constructing motherland” by State-operated 211 Factory in 7th November, 1957. Cobalt blue bowstring decorates the rim. The handle is partially decorated in the same color. RMB 100

Hearst Museum object titled Mug with lid, accession number 9-23950a,b, described as Enamel mug with lid. The white ground is stenciled with a cobalt blue submarine above waves, framed by red inscriptions: (Commemorating) China People’s Liberation Army, Navy, Submarine 070 (中国人民解放军海军潜水艇…念 070 Zhongguo Renmin Jiefangjun haijun qianshuiting… nian). Blue bowstring decorates the rim. The lid is stenciled in red with numbers: 070. RMB 100

Hearst Museum object titled Mug with lid, accession number 9-23954a,b, described as Enamel mug with lid. The white ground is stenciled in red with an emblem of a gun, star and perhaps a submarine helm over the year 1974; on the back the numerals “255”. Blue bowstring decorates the rim. RMB 100

Hearst Museum object titled Mug with lid, accession number 9-23899a,b, described as Enamel mug with lid. Pink pigment was sprayed around the top edge and pale yellow on the body. The red inscription reads “Memento for winners of the city-wide competition among Shanghai industrial enamel factories, 4th quarter 1956 (上海市搪瓷业廠际竟賽优胜紀念 Shanghai shi tangci yechang ji jingsai yousheng jinian). In the center of the red inscription is a decorative character “Prize” (獎jiang) within a five-pointed star. The legend below reads “Presented by State-private cooperative Huafeng Enamel Factory” (公私合营华丰搪瓷廠曾 gongsi heying Huafeng tangci chang zeng). The characters are a mix of simplified and full-form which is appropriate to the year 1956 when simplified characters were being introduced to promote literacy. Note that the character for competition (賽) is written in a simplified form (roof radical over west西) that was later withdrawn. (Cf. Lanzhou washbasin with the same simplified character.) Brown enamel decorates the rim and the handle. The edge of the lid is sprayed with creamy yellow. Acquisition Data: Baoguosi, Mr. Zheng 郑, with Michael Nylan. RMB 200. 2007-09-20. Lent to Charles B. Wang Center, SUNY Stony Brook, June-Dec. 2017, for exhibition “The Way of Tea.” Acquisition Data: Baoguosi, Mr. Zheng 郑, with Michael Nylan. RMB 200. 2007-09-20. Lent to Charles B. Wang Center, SUNY Stony Brook, June-Dec. 2017, for exhibition “The Way of Tea.”