Print and rubbing
Dublin Core
Title
Print and rubbing
Collection Items
Print: tortoise and snake
Large tinted paper print, probably from stone slab, featuring tortoise and snake. Inscription at top: 鎮宅龜蛇 ('Tortoise and snake that protect the house').
Rubbing: goat head and inscription
One rubbing of a goat head and repeated inscription. Detail at bottom indeterminable. Inscriptions: 大吉和 (great, auspicious, harmony).
Rubbing: figures
One rubbing of scribe at a table, with two attendants, one with fan, and inscription. The script at top is a eulogy for King Wen of Zhou Dynasty (1152-1056 BC). The rubbing is probably from Luoyang Longma Futu temple.
Rubbing: vessel
One rubbing possibly of a bronze vessel with panels showing hunters, animals and formal patterns.
Folder: cover
Cardboard cover which acted as folder for collection of 12 coloured wood cut prints, obtained in Suzhou by Rewi Alley. Folder has embossed front cover imitating surface of tree truck, with oval framed lithograph image of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany…
Rubbing: carriage
One rubbing of carriage drawn by a horse, containing a man. Man driving the horse, and another man walking behind, carrying bundles on a shoulder pole. The characters at the top in Han Dynasty clerical script, read "後元二年六月” (June of the second year…
Rubbing: house
One rubbing of house with three people and tree with bird. Line of characters on right side.
Print: figures
One print of husband and wife and two children at a table,with candles and vases of flowers. Inscription at top reads: "大中華帝國洪憲元年灶君之神位”, meaning "The Tablet for the Kitchen God in the First Year (1916) of Hong Xian Emperor of the Empire of China”.…
Print: figures
One coloured print of husband and wife and two children at table, with candles and vases of flowers.
Rubbing: figures and animals
One print of men standing on horse, man riding horse, two birds, elephant, pig, and man.
Rubbing: chariots
One rubbing showing chariots, buildings and diamond and dot patterns, etc in panels.
Print: portrait
One woodblock print entitled 'The Greats' depicting Rewi Alley at the Great Wall of China.
Rubbing: bi and creature
One rubbing from early Chinese stone relief. Bi intersected by mythological creatures. Geometric border.
Rubbing: tortoise
One rubbing of tortoise and animal on its back from early Chinese stone reliefs. Geometric border.
Rubbing: bird
One rubbing of a mythological bird from early Chinese stone reliefs. Geometric border.
Rubbing
Rubbing from early Chinese stone reliefs. Large, musicians, dancers, gamesters. Geometric border, black.
