Door God: Top-Rank Scholar Holding the Scepter of Office

Jiansheng Dong, 1994-1996

Spring

Postcard: Manhattan (Statue of Liberty)

Cai Guo-Qiang, 1996

Commercially color-printed ink on card stock

Door Lintel Ornament: "Hanging Cash" with Flower Basket

Collage of printed and cut paper elements: red "paper-cut" decoration with applique woodblock printed image; ink and color on paper; from a set of five bound together (1935.126.15-.19). Probably from Beijing.

Door Lintel Ornament: "Hanging Cash" with Lan Caihe and He Xiangu, Two of the Eight Immortals

Collage of printed and cut paper elements: red "paper-cut" decoration with applique woodblock printed image; ink and color on paper; from a set of five bound together (1935.36.126.10-.14). Probably from Beijing.

Door God: Heavenly Official Offering Flowers with a Bat of Happiness and an Attendant Holding Sword

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Yuan Tai" (probably the print shop name). Probably from Xinjiang, Shanxi.

Paper God: Daoist Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning, One of the Three Purities

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "San Qing Tian Bao Tian Zun" ("Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning"). Probably from Beijing.

Door God: Heavenly Official with Five Sons

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed shop inscription reading "Jiang Zhou Cheng Nei" ("In Jiangzhou City"). Probably from Xinjiang, Shanxi; possible pair with 1935.36.25.

New Year Print: Four Children Presenting a Treasure Basin

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Probably from Beijing; compare with 1935.37.5.

New Year Print: Child with Qin (Zither) and Toys

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Probably from Yangliuqing, Tianjin; possible pair with 1935.36.35.

Door God: Heavenly Official, with an Attendant and a Crane, Presenting a Treasure Basin

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

Paper God: Barn God with Two Attendants

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed inscription titled "Cang Shen Gong" ("Palace of the Barn God") and couplets from right to left reading "Nian Nian Qu Bu Jin; Yue Yue Yong You Yu" ("Affluent Harvests Year after Year; Abundant Produce Month after Month"). Probably from Xi'an, Shaanxi; compare with 1935.37.51.

Five Goldfish

Chen Haiyan 陳海燕, 1986

Woodblock print; ink on pi zhi bast paper