Posted 2 months ago
favoriteson
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Mom's Collection: I found these two block prints with others in an old homemade cardboard sleeve which had been in storage since the 1970s. The sleeve and art are from a salvage shop in the San Francisco Bay Area that my mom worked at. She would cherry pick stuff and bring it home. The first man's headgear is a Wushamao (a type of futou), Ming Dynasty, China. The second is wearing a putou, (an earlier futou) Tang and Song Dynasties. The futou has a history of over a thousand years and was typically worn by government officials. I got this info from Wikipedia, but since these prints appear to be a matched set, I wonder if the men and their hats could be from the same era?
The art is (11.6 x 27.5 cm) each. With the border its size is (18.3 x 34.5 cm) each
Thank you - favoriteson
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see A list of Guan, Jin, and other headwear---- i am very busy unfortunately this is
( very low quality ) maybe Dave o2 will copy , paste he got an ancester piece
This are MIng wear-- the left one is also what they call by means see the hat WUSHAMAO (flapwing hat) , but the mandarin badges of ranks are missing ( a square of the breast) , this is standard , no scholar no high official
the right one looks normal PUTOU ( headgear also)
the application is not so much different in time , imaginate an papercutter
seals are missing actually it is not even a HYBRID, partly painted mixed up with printware
very cute but only for decorated purpose
Maybe...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xie_Zhi-Wang.jpg
so actually i might be right the Wushamao is shifting to common ware, its one of the implications
it is still highbrow, but the more common ware, probably