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:
- width 7 centimeters and height 55.5 centimeters
- Images:
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