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May you enjoy a peaceful life year after year
岁岁平安
Pun Design: Quails + seedheads of foxtail millet
Punning Details:
The word ‘sui 穗’ for ‘millet seedhead’ is a pun on ‘sui 岁’ for ‘year’; the repetition of ‘sui’ means ‘year in year out’. The word ‘an 鹌’ in ‘an chun 鹌鹑’ for ‘quail’ makes a pun on ‘an 安’ for ‘peace’.
画面要素: 鹌鹑 + 粟米穗
谐音详情: ‘粟米穗’ 中 ‘穗’谐音 ‘岁’; ‘鹌鹑’ 中 ‘鹌’ 的谐音 ‘安’。
Related Pun Rebuses:
May you be trouble-free and roll in wealth 平安多利
May you both live a peaceful life 双安
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Fig 1: snuff-bottle, Jiaqing period (1796-1820), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 2: porcelain vase, Yongzheng period (1723-35), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 3: porcelain vase with overglaze enamelled decoration, Qianlong period (1736-95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 4: metal vase with enamelled decoration, Qianlong period (1736-95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of The Trustees of the British Museum
Fig 5: snuff-bottle, enamels on copper set in coral, Qianlong period (1736-95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of Baur Collection, Geneva
Fig 6: jade carving, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), courtesy of Palace Museum, Beijing
Fig 7: bamboo root carving, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), courtesy of Palace Museum, Beijing
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