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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)

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)

Chinese

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.

Qing dynasty, 1644-1911

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