Teacup

Museum number:
9-23546
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
CM86 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
Hand-painted landscape of Welcoming Pine on Huangshan. Two figures stand at lower right and point to pine. Typical green and orange-buff colors of 1950s porcelains. The back is inscribed in good calligraphy: “Fight selfishness, denounce revisionism -- Mao Zedong” (要鬥私，批修 毛泽东yao dousi, pixiu – Mao Zedong).
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Gift from Miriam Clifford
Production place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
September 4, 2003
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
late 1950s
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
height 5.2 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Teacup, accession number 9-23546, described as Hand-painted landscape of Welcoming Pine on Huangshan. Two figures stand at lower right and point to pine. Typical green and orange-buff colors of 1950s porcelains. The back is inscribed in good calligraphy: “Fight selfishness, denounce revisionism -- Mao Zedong” (要鬥私，批修 毛泽东yao dousi, pixiu – Mao Zedong).Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Teacup, accession number 9-23546, described as Hand-painted landscape of Welcoming Pine on Huangshan. Two figures stand at lower right and point to pine. Typical green and orange-buff colors of 1950s porcelains. The back is inscribed in good calligraphy: “Fight selfishness, denounce revisionism -- Mao Zedong” (要鬥私，批修 毛泽东yao dousi, pixiu – Mao Zedong).

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