New Year Print: Peonies in a Dragon Vase

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Probably from Beijing; possible pair with 1980.92.8; image identical to 1935.37.21.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading from right to left: "Yi Sheng" (probably the print shop name). Possibly from Xinjiang, Shanxi.

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

Commercially color-printed ink on card stock

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Probably from Fengxiang, Shaanxi; compare with 1935.37.50.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Probably from Beijing; possible pair with 1980.92.7; image identical to 1935.37.22.

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Ju Bao Zhao Cai" ("Gathering Wealth and Attracting Money"). Probably from Beijing.

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left "He He Er Sheng" ("The Two Sages He and He"). Probably from Beijing.

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Zhang Lao Xianggong" ("Old Master Zhang"). Probably from Beijing; part of a possible set of paper gods 1935.36.62-.81.

Woodblock print; ink on paper

Woodblock print; ink, color and silver on paper; with silver foils on some figures' faces; a fraction at bottom is not color printed, possibly it was originally folded in; with printed inscription on the carriage reading: "Yu Huang Shang Di" ("The Jade Emperor"), on the left red banner reading: "Tiandi Sanjie Shifang Zhenzai"("True Rulers of Heaven, Earth, The Three Realms and Ten Directions"), and on the right blue banner reading: "Shang Yuan Ci Fu Tianguan" ("The Daoist Heavenly Official Who Grants Forturne"). Probably from Beijing.