Everything You Wish in the Nine Heavens: Gods of Wealth Increase Good Fortune / Artist Unknown, China
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- Accession Number
- 2006/2.49
- Title
- Everything You Wish in the Nine Heavens: Gods of Wealth Increase Good Fortune
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
- Dimensions
- 81.6 cm x 26.13 cm (32 1/8 in. x 10 5/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- color print
- Secondary Object Classification
- Secondary Object Type
- woodblock
- Physical Description
- Two male figures wearing official robes and hats, sit side by side on thrones. The one on the right holds a shoe-shaped ingot and a scepter. The god on the left holds only a shoe-shaped ingot. In front of them is basin filled with coins and rarities such as jewels, branches of coral and shining ingots. On the right, a smaller male figure holds a horse on a tray while his counter part on the left holds a brush and a scroll. At the top is a sinuous dragon whose spine is composed of coins and above him is a horse bearing a stack of shoe-shaped ingots.
- Subject Matter
- Two Gods of Wealth, wearing official robes and hats, sit side by side. The one on the right holds a shoe-shaped ingot and a scepter known as a “juyi” (everything as you wish). The god on the left holds only a shoe-shaped ingot. In front of them is the never-empty treasure basin filled with coins and rarities such as gleaming round jewels, branches of coral and shining ingots. On the right, a foreigner, identifiable by his curly beard, large eyes and peaked hat, brings in wealth in the form of a magic horse on a tray; his counter part on the left is an official holding a brush and a scroll. Symbols of wealth fill the picture. At the top is a sinuous dragon whose spine is composed of coins and above him is a horse bearing a stack of shoe-shaped ingots. The horse was the fastest mode of transportation in traditional China; here he gallops to bring in money.
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- symbols of office
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2006/2.49
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"Everything You Wish in the Nine Heavens: Gods of Wealth Increase Good Fortune; Artist Unknown, China." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-2.49/2006_2.49.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.
