New Year Print: Qilin Delivering Sons and Good Wishes

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Si Ming Zhu" ("Arbiter of Fate").

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed title inscription reading from right to left: "Dour Jiejie" ("Sister Smallpox") and a couplet reading from right to left: "Qiancheng Gong Doujie; Ernü Bao Ankang" ("Worship Sister Smallpox; Children Will Be Healthy"). Probably from Beijing.

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Taiyin Xing Jun" ("Daoist God of the Moon"). Probably from Beijing.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to lef: "Jing Quan Long Wang Shen Wei" ("Divine Dragon King of the Well"). Probably from Xi'an, Shaanxi.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Xing" (probably part of the print shop name). Probably from Fengxiang, Shaanxi; compair to 1935.37.61.

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Da Shun" (probably the print shop name). Probably from Yangliuqing, Tianjin.

Ink and color on paper

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

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Tian Wen Kui Xing" ("Kui Xing, Deity of Literary Affairs"). Probably from Beijing.

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