May you enjoy wealth and privilege in your long life
耄耋富贵
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Pun Design ：
Punning Details：
– ‘mao 猫 cat’ makes a pun on ‘mao 耄’
– ‘die 蝶 butterfly’ in ‘hu die 蝴蝶 butterfly’ is a pun on ‘die 耋 octogenarian’, indicating ‘a ripe old age’
– ‘fu gui 富贵’ in ‘fu gui hua 富贵花 peony’ literally, the ‘flower of wealth and prestige’, which is a nickname of ‘mu dan 牡丹 peony’
Therefore, the motif combination of cat, peony and butterfly conveys an auspicious wish for wealth, prestige and longevity in later life.
It can also be called ‘Fu Gui Mao Die 富贵耄耋’ in Chinese with the exact same meaning.
Related Pun Pictures:
May you both live together to a ripe old age in married bliss 白头偕老
Fig 1: Cat beneath the flowers of wealth, ink and colour on silk, anonymous, Song dynasty (960–1279), courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 2: copper lidded snuff-bottle with enamelled decoration, Qianlong period (1736–95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 3: Mao Die Yan Nian Tu 耄耋延年图, ink and colour on paper, Zhu Nen and Ni Tian, 1894, Guangxu period (1875–1908), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the Tokyo National Museum, Japan