Paper God: Kitchen God, the "Arbiter of Fate" ("Si Ming Zhu"), Seated at an Altar Table with Four Attendants

Commercially color-printed ink on card stock

Collage of printed and cut paper elements: red "paper-cut" decoration with applique woodblock printed image; ink and color on paper. Probably from Beijing; identical to 1935.36.126.9.

Ink on paper

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Yong Xing Ju" (probably the print shop name). Probably from Fengxiang, Shaanxi; possible pair with 1935.37.57.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed inscription on the shrine reading "Ju Bao Tang" ("Hall of Plentiful Treasure"), and printed couplet reading from right to left: "Tu Zhong Sheng Bai Yu; Di Nei Chu Huang Jin" ("Pure Jade Grows out of the Earth; Yellow Gold Comes out of the Ground"). Probably from Jiajiang, Sichuan.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Probably from Yangliuqing, Tianjin; possible pair with 1935.36.14.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Probably from Beijing; compare with 1980.92.13.

Ink and color on paper

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription in red: "Dong Da Xing Rong" (the print shop name), and printed inscription of the print title "He Yuan Xiao" ("Celebrating the Lantern Festival") and inscription on banners: "Tian Xia Tai Ping" ("[May] Peace Under Heaven") and "Yuan Xiao" ("Lantern Festival"). Probably from Jiajiang, Sichuan.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with a printed couplet reading from right to left: "You Yan Shen Si Hai; Mi Mian Ji Ru Shan" ("Oil and Salt Can Fill the Sea; Rice and Flour Pile up Like Mountains"). Probably from Lingbao, Henan.

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Mei(?) Ku Zhi Shen" (Coal Mine God). Probably from Beijing.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Xie Li" (probably the print shop name). Probably from Lingbao, Henan.