Paper God: Daoist Goddess Who Cures Smallpox

Light of Lake

Mo Ce 莫測, 1982

Woodblock print; ink on xuan paper

Paper God: Kui Xing (Stellar Kui) Daoist Deity of Literary Affairs

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.

Paper God: Jiu Tian Xuan Nü, Daoist Goddess Who Sends Sons

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Jiu Tian Xuan Nü" ("Goddess of Nine Heavens"). Probably from Beijing; part of a possible set of paper gods 1935.36.62-.81.

Paper God: Kitchen God Seated with Four Attendants

Woodblock print; ink on paper. Probably from Yangliuqing, Tianjin; almost identical to 1935.36.115.

Door God: General Zhao Yun Protecting Child Lord Liu Chan, Son of Liu Bei

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed inscription reading "Lingbao". Probably from Lingbao, Henan; possible pair with 1935.37.76.

Ornamental Stationery of the Ten Bamboo Studio ("Shih-chu-chai chien-p'u")

Unknown Artist, 1952

Ink on paper

Pantheon of Gods: "Tian Di San Jie Shi Fang Wan Ling Zhen Zai" ("True Rulers of Heaven, Earth, The Three Realms, The Ten Directions and Ten Thousand Souls"), with the Jade Emperor Seated in the Middle

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; Probably from Lingbao, Henan.

New Year Print: Nine Phoenixes Flying to the Sun

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed title inscription reading from right to left:"Jiu Feng Chao Yang" ("Nine Phoenixes Flying to the Sun"). Probably from Yangliuqing, Tianjin.

Opera-Scene Print: Three Characters in Outlaws of the Marsh: Guan Sheng, Xu Ning and Huyan Zhuo

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with printed inscription of character names from right to left: "Da Dao Guan Sheng" ("Guan Sheng the Big Halberd"), "Jin Qiang Shou Xu Ning" ("Xu Ning the Metal Lancer") and "Shuang Bian" ("Two Rods": nickname of Huyan Zhuo). Probably from Yangliuqing, Tianjin.

Paper God: God of the Royal Exam (probably)

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left "(Deng?) Ke Zhi Shen" ("God of Royal Exam"). Probably from Beijing.

Paper God: Ruler of the Good Earth at an Altar Table with Four Attendants

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Hou Tu Huang Di" ("Ruler of the Good Earth"). Probably from Beijing.

Paper God: Kitchen God and Wife at an Altar Table, with Qilin Delivering a Son in the Foreground, and with a Calendar for the Year Minguo 21 (1932)

Unknown Artist, 1932

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.