New Year Print: Lion Dance for Celebrating the Lantern Festival

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper, with hand coloring on verso

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

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Dong Da Xing Rong" ("Prosperous Dong Da Xing"; probably the print shop name). Probably from Jiajiang, Sichuan; possible pair with 1935.37.127.

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "You Xian Zhi Shen" ("Oil God?"). Probably from Beijing; part of a possible set of paper gods 1935.36.62-.81.

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 1935.37.61.

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 on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Zeng Sheng Wu Gege" ("Five Brothers of Increasing Prosperity"). Probably from Beijing.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Probably from Mianzhu, Sichuan; possible pair 1935.37.116.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Shun Xing" (probably the print shop name). Possibly from Xi'an, Shaanxi.

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Guan Ping Zhi Shen" ("God Guan Ping"). Probably from Beijing.

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 1935.37.60.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Fu Xing" (probably the print shop name). Probably from Xi'an, Shaanxi; possible pair with 1935.37.90, which has a printed shop inscription reading "Ju Zao" (together their inscriptions read "Fu Xing Ju Zao", "Made by Fu Xing Ju"); compare with 1935.37.89 and .102.