May you have as many male offspring as a pomegranate has seeds
榴开百子
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Pun Design ：
Pomegranate
Punning Details：
– Artist may repeat one particular visual element many times for conveying the numeral ‘bai 百 hundred’.
– A cracked pomegranate showing numerous seeds (bai zi 百籽), in which ‘zi 籽 seed’ is a pun on ‘zi 子 son’; the idea of ‘bai 百 hundred’, is represented by the plenitude of seeds in a pomegranate.
Related Pun Picture:
May the male line in your family clan continue and flourish 瓜瓞绵绵
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Three Star Gods 福禄寿三星
Fig 1: porcelain dish with overglaze enamelled decoration, Tianqi period (1621–27), Ming dynasty, copyright SOAS
Fig 2: porcelain dish with underglaze decoration, Kangxi period (1662–1722), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Fig 3: porcelain bowl with enamelled decoration, Yongzheng period (1723–35), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 4: porcelain vase with overglaze enamelled decoration, Yongzheng period (1723–35), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the collection of Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller
Fig 5: porcelain tea pot with underglaze blue decoration, Yongzheng period (1723–35), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 6: porcelain bowl with overglaze enamelled decoration, Qianlong period (1736–95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fig 7: porcelain vase with overglaze enamelled decoration, Qianlong period (1736–95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of Tianjin Museum, China
Fig 8: porcelain vase with overglaze enamelled decoration, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), courtesy of Baoding Zhili Governor’s Office Museum, Hebei Province, China
Fig 9: porcelain vase with overglaze enamelled decoration, Qianlong period (1736–95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of Capital Museum, Beijing, China
Fig 10: carved ivory tray, 18th century, courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum