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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23602, described as Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16 cm Date: 1960s Country: People’s Republic of China Description: The plain exterior features two horizontal inscriptions in formal script in black. Inscription: Front: Wishing Chairman Mao long live without limit (祝毛主席万寿无疆 zhu Mao zhuxi wanshou wujiang); rear: People’s Commune is good (人民公社好 renmin gongshe hao). No kiln mark. Place of Origin: China Condition: Very good with minor wear Acquisition Data: Baoguosi, 2003-2010
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23617, described as Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 17.3 cm Date: 1968 Country: People’s Republic of China Description: Two alternating decals, each appearing twice, with touches of hand applied color. One portrays in red two men and one woman in front of a luminous setting, reading presumably, Mao Zedong’s thought. A slogan, reading: Revolution depends on Mao Zedong Thought (干革命靠毛泽东思想 gan geming kao Mao Zedong sixiang), appears in the front with a yellow sunflower on each side. The other pattern portrays a purple steamboat on a blue sea amid waves. Above there is a slogan in purple that reads: “Sailing on the high seas depends on the helmsman” (大海航行靠舵手dahai hangxing kao duoshou). Inscription: Kiln mark: “Zi River porcelain factory, Hunan 1968” (湖南資江瓷厂1968 Hunan Zijiang cichang 1968) Place of Origin: Yiyang, Hunan Province. Condition: Good, with signs of wear. Acquisition Data: Beijing, probably Panjiayuan. 2001-2005
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23614, described as Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16 cm Date: 1967 Country: People’s Republic of China Description: Exterior has register of two alternating patterns. One decal in red shows a woman driving a tractor that has a red flag and a slogan reading: Support Industry (支援工业zhiyuan gongyi). The tractor carries a full load. The other pattern in green shows a sunflower. Interior has red fish alternating with green water grass. Inscription: Kiln mark: “Zi River porcelain factory, Hunan, 1967” (湖南 资江瓷厂Hunan Zijiang cichang 1967). Two characters are embossed in the bowl’s interior: “兆仙zhao xian” Place of Origin: Yiyang, Hunan Province. Condition: Signs of wear Acquisition Data: Panjiayuan. Price? Date: 2003-02-15
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23623, described as On the body of the bowl decals show four children playing Ping-Pong or cycling. Figures are separated by red patterns imitating seals, within which there are seal script characters reading: “Exercise the body” (鍛煉身体Duanlian shenti)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23600, described as Object Name: Bowl Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16.3 cm Date: Great Leap 1959-1961 Country: People’s Republic of China Description: The exterior decorated with repeated abstracted images of cotton balls (?), and two characters meaning Provident Harvest (丰收 fengshou) enclosed in floral motifs. Inscription: Red circular kiln mark “Great China” (大华 da hua) Place of Origin: probably Beijing Condition: Good, Signs of wear Acquisition Data: Baoguosi 报国寺 Price: 60 RMB. Date: 2002-03-07.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23596, described as Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16.2 cm Date: early 1950s Country: People’s Republic of China Description: The exterior decorated with flower blossoms and four characters in faded black: “Resist America, Support Korea” (抗美援朝 kang mei yuan chao). Each character is enclosed in a red circle. Inscription: Red circular kiln mark on foot: “Product of the ceramic painting committee of porcelain factory in Pingxiang, Jiangxi” (江西萍鄉瓷廠陶畫組出品 Jiangxi Pingxiang cichang taohuazu chupin) Place of Origin: Jiangxi Province Condition: chips on the rim, wear to the decoration Acquisition Data: Panjiayuan Date: 2001
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23595, described as Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16 cm Date: 1933 Country: People’s Republic of China Description: The exterior is painted with bird and peonies. The reverse is inscribed. The gilded rim is worn. Inscription: Reverse: “Floral fragrance and birds’ songs also have feeling. Autumn month of the kuichou year [1933] at Zhu mountain [2 illegible characters] Yi xin ? made” (花香鳥語亦多情句 癸酉之秋月於珠山，□□義新森作huaxiang niaoyu yi duoqing ju, guiyou zhi qiuyue yu Zhushan, XX Yi xinsen zuo), an illegible red mark. Red square maker’s mark on foot: 景鎮范義新Jing zhen Fan Yi xin xx. Place of Origin: Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province. Condition: Extensive damage on foot rim, major chips and cracks on rim, wear. Acquisition Data: Shenyang suburbs. About 80 RMB. Date: 2012-06
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23608, described as Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 15.5 cm Date: 1967 Country: People’s Republic of China Description: A ship sailing on the sea with blue waves underneath and a glittering red sun on the horizon. Both are references to the leadership of Mao. Inscription: A decal in red states, “Sailing the high seas depends on the helmsman” (大海航行靠舵手dahai hangxing kao duoshou). Kiln mark unclear. Place of Origin: China Condition: Good. Acquisition Data: Beijing, probably Panjiayuan. 2001-2005
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23606, described as Entry: No. CB68 Object Name: Bowl Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16.5 cm Date: Country: People’s Republic of China Description: The exterior features a decal of red lanterns and flower blossoms, next to an inscription in li script. Inscription: Body: Revolution and Production – Double Triumph (革命生产双胜利 geming shengchan shuang shengli). No kiln mark. Place of Origin: China Condition: Wear on the surface Acquisition Data: Beijing, probably Panjiayuan. 2001-2005
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, museum number 9-23616, described as Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16 cm Date: 1968 Country: People’s Republic of China Description: The body is decorated with CCP’s symbol in a five-pointed star; on its left is a slogan above a scene of factory buildings with chimneys. The slogan reads: “Make it your principle to fight selfishness, denounce Revisionism” (以斗私、批修为綱 yi dousi、pixiu wei gang). On the right there is a stylized wheat pattern above a slogan reading: “Grasp revolution, Promote production” (抓革命促生产zhua geming cu shengchan). Contents in Quotation from Mao Zedong framed by a wheat garland, concluding with: “Carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution through to the end” (要把无产阶级文化大革命进行到底 yao ba wuchan jieji wenhua dageming jinxing daodi). Inscription: Kiln mark: “Zi River porcelain factory, Hunan 1968” (湖南 資江瓷厂Hunan Zijiang cichang 1968) Place of Origin: Yiyang, Hunan Province. Condition: A crack on the interior, signs of wear. Acquisition Data: Beijing, probably Panjiayuan. 2001-2005