Paper God: Kitchen God and Wife at an Altar Table in "Zou Shan Tang" ("Hall of Reporting Virtue"), with Two Offici

Chinese

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; with a printed couplet reading from right to left: "Ren Jian Si Ming Zhu; Tian Shang Ear Mu Shen" ("Arbiter of Fate on Earth; Surveillance [literally, 'ear-and-eye'] Official of Heaven"). Probably from Jiajiang, Sichuan.

Qing dynasty, 1644-1911