Mirror
- Museum number:
- 9-23844
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090023844
- Alternate number:
- GM1 (previous number (collector's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4817
- Description:
- Rectangular mirror in original wooden frame decorated with a decal of Mao Zedong and General Zhu De. Their portraits are framed with roundels of wheat representing the peasant class. They are flanked by six flags of the new PRC. Below is yellow bunting held in place with pink blossoms. Above is a five-pointed yellow star on a red ground encircled by a green cog representing the working class.
- Donor:
- Alfreda Murck
- Collection place:
- Panjiayuan Market, Beijing, China
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Panjiayuan Furniture Building, Beijing
- Production place:
- China
- Culture or time period:
- Chinese
- Collector:
- Alfreda Murck
- Collection date:
- September 12, 2009
- Materials:
- Glass (material), Metal, and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Mirrors
- Production date:
- 1949-1950
- Accession date:
- August 25, 2020
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- whole— width 36.3 centimeters and whole— height 51.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- Panjiayuan Furniture Building, 2nd floor, 2009-9-12, with Miriam Clifford and Francine. 500 RMBCondition: Fair. Some loss of silvering. Frame scuffed.
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