Pair of spring couplets

Museum number:
9-21360a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210921360a@2cb
Alternate number:
VIII 3 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
Pair of spring couplets. Black ink on red paper. “May a thousand good omens gather like clouds, and a hundred kinds of happiness combine here; May you smoothly enter into a new spring and everything follow your heart’s (desire).” Strips 7 x 55.5 cm
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
Verbatim coll. place:
Peking
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1942
Materials:
Ink and Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
For door posts at New Year's.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 55.5 centimeters and width 7 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Pair of spring couplets, accession number 9-21360a,b, described as Pair of spring couplets. Black ink on red paper. “May a thousand good omens gather like clouds, and a hundred kinds of happiness combine here; May you smoothly enter into a new spring and everything follow your heart’s (desire).” Strips 7 x 55.5 cmHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Pair of spring couplets, accession number 9-21360a,b, described as Pair of spring couplets. Black ink on red paper. “May a thousand good omens gather like clouds, and a hundred kinds of happiness combine here; May you smoothly enter into a new spring and everything follow your heart’s (desire).” Strips 7 x 55.5 cm

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