Mug and lid

Museum number:
9-23510a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210923510a@2cb
Alternate number:
CM39a,b (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
A colored decal shows a busy grand hall in a mountain setting. On the lower right a small square red seal reads 安源 Anyuan, the coal and steel town on he Jiangxi-Hunan boarder made famous by a labor strike in 1922, and celebrated in Liu Chunhua’s 1967 painting Mao goes to Anyuan (although Mao apparently never visited the coal mines and was not there in 1922). Lid identical to CM39. Inscription: On foot: “Made in Jingdezhen, China” (中国景德鎮 Zhongguo Jingdezhen)
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Beijing
Production place:
Jiangxi province, Southern China and Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
2005 spring
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mugs (cups)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
Late 1970s, early 1980s
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 8.3 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mug and lid, accession number 9-23510a,b, described as A colored decal shows a busy grand hall in a mountain setting. On the lower right a small square red seal reads 安源 Anyuan, the coal and steel town on he Jiangxi-Hunan boarder made famous by a labor strike in 1922, and celebrated in Liu Chunhua’s 1967 painting Mao goes to Anyuan (although Mao apparently never visited the coal mines and was not there in 1922). Lid identical to CM39. Inscription: On foot: “Made in Jingdezhen, China” (中国景德鎮 Zhongguo Jingdezhen)

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