Sign

Museum number:
9-14642
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Alternate number:
155 (previous number (Albert Bender’s number)) and None (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Sign, carved wood: rectangular plaque with cut corners. Black raised characters on gilded low relief patterned ground. Characters probably a name, possibly reading "South village sand-spit" (the two characters on the left are similar to the compound for Swatow—"sand-spit"). Paper sticker on back reading "Canton" with three characters.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Guangdong province, Southern China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Sign, accession number 9-14642, described as Sign, carved wood: rectangular plaque with cut corners. Black raised characters on gilded low relief patterned ground. Characters probably a name, possibly reading "South village sand-spit" (the two characters on the left are similar to the compound for Swatow—"sand-spit"). Paper sticker on back reading "Canton" with three characters.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Sign, accession number 9-14642, described as Sign, carved wood: rectangular plaque with cut corners. Black raised characters on gilded low relief patterned ground. Characters probably a name, possibly reading "South village sand-spit" (the two characters on the left are similar to the compound for Swatow—"sand-spit"). Paper sticker on back reading "Canton" with three characters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sign, accession number 9-14642, described as Sign, carved wood: rectangular plaque with cut corners. Black raised characters on gilded low relief patterned ground. Characters probably a name, possibly reading "South village sand-spit" (the two characters on the left are similar to the compound for Swatow—"sand-spit"). Paper sticker on back reading "Canton" with three characters.

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