c. 1540-1550
plate: 17.7 x 10.7 cm (6 15/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Edith I. Welch, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016
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.
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