Title: Ancient Chinese Doors
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 1900
Medium: wood and oil paint
Credit Line: Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

Item description: A pair of doors for an inner building in a courtyard. Both doors are painted with door gods in the attire of civil officials. The door on the left the figure is carrying the bronze jue vessel (implying official rank) and the door on the right the figure is carrying the peony flower (implying good fortune). They together mean the promotion of ranks and enhance of great fortune for a family.