Cups

Museum number:
9-23517
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
CM50 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
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).
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
Panjiayuan Market, Beijing, China
Verbatim coll. place:
Panjiayuan Market, Beijing
Production place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
November 27, 2005
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cups (drinking vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
Post Cultural Revolution (late 1970s)
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 6.3 centimeters
Images:
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).

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