Object class: Drinking vessels / Production place: Hebei province, Northern China - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 9-23633, described as The two dark-green glazed cups are decorated with decals of a deep pink peony blossoms; gilded rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug and lid, accession number 9-23538a,b, described as A colored decal of an erect pine tree towering above surrounding landscape. Red moss hangs from branches. A small red seal at lower right reads Yellow Mountains (黄山Huangshan).

Hearst Museum object titled Mug and lid, accession number 9-23506a,b, described as The front has a decal of a young woman steel worker holding a yard arm. She wears an orange shirt and a full-length black apron. The back is printed with inscription given below. Inscription: “Industry should learn from Daqing” (工业学大庆 gongye xue Daqing). Foot: pictorial seal with seagull over blue mountain and sea. “Manufactured in Tangshan” (唐山制造 Tangshan zhizao) is displayed against a motif hinting at the crenelated Great Wall.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug and lid, accession number 9-23539a,b, described as Gold ring on the lid and rim. Ink bamboo on the pale-yellow body, with a design of a seal that reads bamboo (竹 zhu)

Hearst Museum object titled Mug with lid, accession number 9-23900a,b, described as Enamel mug with lid. The spray-painted decor features a blue symbol of the Chinese Railway System, accompanied by an inscription: “Commemorating the reopening of Shijiazhuang-Shenyang route, 1956” (石阳复綫紀念Shi Yang fu xian jinian). Cobalt blue bowstring decorates the rim. The handle and the finial are partially decorated in black.

Hearst Museum object titled Mug with lid, accession number 9-23909a,b, described as Enamel mug with lid. The yellow ground is stenciled with an image of a large red flower surrounded by green leaves. On the right there is a radiating red torch on the background and a book on the forefront marked “Culture (文化wenhua). Cobalt blue bowstring decorates the rim. The handle and finial is partially decorated in the same color. Pink pigment is sprayed onto the edge of the lid. The mug may have been made during the One-hundred Flowers Bloom Campaign (百花齊放運動Baihua qifang yundong). 70 RMB

Hearst Museum object titled Train mug without handle, accession number 9-23522, described as The blue-and-white mug is printed with characters 连 lian (standing for 大连 Dalian) and 列 lie which stands for train (列车 lieche) flanking the symbol of the Chinese Railway System. Above is the admonition “Serve the people” (为人民服务 wei renmin fuwu) and Mao’s signature. Blue bowstring around rim.

Hearst Museum object titled Train mug without handle, accession number 9-23524, described as The blue-on-white mug features the symbol of Chinese Railway System, flanked by two characters 佳jia and 列lie (Jia is an abbreviation for Jiamusi 佳木斯in Heilongjiang Province; lie is short for 列车 lieche, train). Above is a slogan and a signature of Mao Zedong, under a blue rim. Inscription: “Fight selfishness, denounce revisionism. Mao Zedong” (要鬥私，批修毛泽东yao dousi, pixiu Mao Zedong).