Mug

Museum number:
9-23497
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090023497
Alternate number:
CM24 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
A hand-painted decal depicts a red sun rising over a village intended to be Mao Zedong’s home village of Shaoshan. Inscriptions at upper right and on the reverse. Inscription: Front: “The sun rises from Shaoshan” (日从韶山出 ri cong Shaoshan chu). On the reverse: decal of a couplet from Mao Zedong’s poem Reaching Shaoshan (到韶山): “Happy, I see wave upon wave of paddy and beans/ And all around heroes home-bound in the evening mist” (喜看稻菽千重浪，遍地英雄下夕煙 xi kan daoshu qian chong lang, piandi yingxiong xia xi yan). Kiln mark on the foot: “Qimen, Anhui 71” (安徽祁門 Anhui Qimen 71)
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Baoguosi Market, Beijing, China
Production place:
Qimen, Anhui Province, China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
October 9, 2003
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mugs (cups)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
1971
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 9.2 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mug, accession number 9-23497, described as A hand-painted decal depicts a red sun rising over a village intended to be Mao Zedong’s home village of Shaoshan. Inscriptions at upper right and on the reverse. Inscription: Front: “The sun rises from Shaoshan” (日从韶山出 ri cong Shaoshan chu). On the reverse: decal of a couplet from Mao Zedong’s poem Reaching Shaoshan (到韶山): “Happy, I see wave upon wave of paddy and beans/ And all around heroes home-bound in the evening mist” (喜看稻菽千重浪，遍地英雄下夕煙 xi kan daoshu qian chong lang, piandi yingxiong xia xi yan). Kiln mark on the foot: “Qimen, Anhui 71” (安徽祁門 Anhui Qimen 71)

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