Gourds

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Gourds

Zhao YunheLinkedCulture matchlcp-2b52b9831762

Date
1932
Medium
Ink and color on paper
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
83507

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In Chinese popular culture, there has long been a convention of using plants or animals to embody certain propitious meanings. The image of melons-gourds in this case-connected one to another by vines, suggests generations of sons and grandsons stretching on without interruption. The pun comes from the word dai (belt)-the vine-linked melons-that provides a homophone on the word dai (generations). China, Asia

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Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton

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