Bowl

Museum number:
9-12733
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3250 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
Description:
China. Bowl, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Small hemisphere shape on short narrow foot. Matched with 9-12732. Thick, opaque enamel decoration covering all of exterior Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Opaque white stems at foot with incised detail; more translucent light and dark green leaves near rim with spots of red. Black detail. Interior plain with mottled grey surface except for small peach and bat medallion at center in green, pink, and coral-red. Brown on rim. Crack on side; chips in rim, and scratched surface. Height 5.2 centimeters, diameter 11.1 centimeters.
Donor:
Anita Day Symmes Blake, Anson Stiles Blake, and Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
China
Collector:
Anson Stiles Blake
Collection date:
pre-1962
Materials:
Glaze (coating by location)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12733, described as China. Bowl, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Small hemisphere shape on short narrow foot. Matched with 9-12732. Thick, opaque enamel decoration covering all of exterior Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Opaque white stems at foot with incised detail; more translucent light and dark green leaves near rim with spots of red. Black detail. Interior plain with mottled grey surface except for small peach and bat medallion at center in green, pink, and coral-red. Brown on rim. Crack on side; chips in rim, and scratched surface. Height 5.2 centimeters, diameter 11.1 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12733, described as China. Bowl, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Small hemisphere shape on short narrow foot. Matched with 9-12732. Thick, opaque enamel decoration covering all of exterior Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Opaque white stems at foot with incised detail; more translucent light and dark green leaves near rim with spots of red. Black detail. Interior plain with mottled grey surface except for small peach and bat medallion at center in green, pink, and coral-red. Brown on rim. Crack on side; chips in rim, and scratched surface. Height 5.2 centimeters, diameter 11.1 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12733, described as China. Bowl, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Small hemisphere shape on short narrow foot. Matched with 9-12732. Thick, opaque enamel decoration covering all of exterior Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Opaque white stems at foot with incised detail; more translucent light and dark green leaves near rim with spots of red. Black detail. Interior plain with mottled grey surface except for small peach and bat medallion at center in green, pink, and coral-red. Brown on rim. Crack on side; chips in rim, and scratched surface. Height 5.2 centimeters, diameter 11.1 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12733, described as China. Bowl, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Small hemisphere shape on short narrow foot. Matched with 9-12732. Thick, opaque enamel decoration covering all of exterior Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Opaque white stems at foot with incised detail; more translucent light and dark green leaves near rim with spots of red. Black detail. Interior plain with mottled grey surface except for small peach and bat medallion at center in green, pink, and coral-red. Brown on rim. Crack on side; chips in rim, and scratched surface. Height 5.2 centimeters, diameter 11.1 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12733, described as China. Bowl, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Small hemisphere shape on short narrow foot. Matched with 9-12732. Thick, opaque enamel decoration covering all of exterior Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Opaque white stems at foot with incised detail; more translucent light and dark green leaves near rim with spots of red. Black detail. Interior plain with mottled grey surface except for small peach and bat medallion at center in green, pink, and coral-red. Brown on rim. Crack on side; chips in rim, and scratched surface. Height 5.2 centimeters, diameter 11.1 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12733, described as China. Bowl, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Small hemisphere shape on short narrow foot. Matched with 9-12732. Thick, opaque enamel decoration covering all of exterior Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Opaque white stems at foot with incised detail; more translucent light and dark green leaves near rim with spots of red. Black detail. Interior plain with mottled grey surface except for small peach and bat medallion at center in green, pink, and coral-red. Brown on rim. Crack on side; chips in rim, and scratched surface. Height 5.2 centimeters, diameter 11.1 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12733, described as China. Bowl, porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration. Small hemisphere shape on short narrow foot. Matched with 9-12732. Thick, opaque enamel decoration covering all of exterior Chinese cabbage (bok choy) pattern. Opaque white stems at foot with incised detail; more translucent light and dark green leaves near rim with spots of red. Black detail. Interior plain with mottled grey surface except for small peach and bat medallion at center in green, pink, and coral-red. Brown on rim. Crack on side; chips in rim, and scratched surface. Height 5.2 centimeters, diameter 11.1 centimeters.

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