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New Year Print: Red-Robed Figure on a Big Rooster to Welcome an Auspicious New Spring
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Department of Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Carl Schuster Esq.
Title: New Year Print: Red-Robed Figure on a Big Rooster to Welcome an Auspicious New Spring
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