Wedding invitation

Museum number:
9-21364a-c
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210921364a@2dc
Alternate number:
X 1 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4697
Description:
Invitation to a wedding [a-c]. “We respectfully request your illustrious attendance at the wedding of our eldest son n.n. and fourth daughter n.n. on (date according to the official and the old calendar). We have prepared refreshments. Sincerely, N.N.; N.N. (parents of the bride and groom). The ceremony will take place at n.n. (place) at (hour) new (official) time” 24.8 x 11.8 cm; envelope 26 x 13 cm. The “badly chewed-up” red envelope indicated the meeting point for joint transportation to the out-of-town wedding.
Donor:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection place:
Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
Verbatim coll. place:
China. Peking (Beijing). Received by Ilse Fang in 1944.
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Ilse Martin Fang
Collection date:
1944
Materials:
Ink and Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama and 7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
Accession date:
December 15, 1998
Context of use:
Wedding Invitation.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
Envelope— width 26 centimeters, width 24.8 centimeters, Envelope— length 13 centimeters, and length 11.8 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Wedding invitation, accession number 9-21364a-c, described as Invitation to a wedding [a-c]. “We respectfully request your illustrious attendance at the wedding of our eldest son n.n. and fourth daughter n.n. on (date according to the official and the old calendar). We have prepared refreshments. Sincerely, N.N.; N.N. (parents of the bride and groom). The ceremony will take place at n.n. (place) at (hour) new (official) time” 24.8 x 11.8 cm; envelope 26 x 13 cm. The “badly chewed-up” red envelope indicated the meeting point for joint transportation to the out-of-town wedding.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Wedding invitation, accession number 9-21364a-c, described as Invitation to a wedding [a-c]. “We respectfully request your illustrious attendance at the wedding of our eldest son n.n. and fourth daughter n.n. on (date according to the official and the old calendar). We have prepared refreshments. Sincerely, N.N.; N.N. (parents of the bride and groom). The ceremony will take place at n.n. (place) at (hour) new (official) time” 24.8 x 11.8 cm; envelope 26 x 13 cm. The “badly chewed-up” red envelope indicated the meeting point for joint transportation to the out-of-town wedding.

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