Rice bowl

Museum number:
9-23557
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090023557
Alternate number:
CB01 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
Small glazed porcelain rice bowl. Likely a post 1980 revival of the Establishing the Nation kiln name. The Jianguo (Establishing Nation) kiln had made porcelain dinner sets for the new PRC government in the early 1950s. On the front two men (perhaps done with rubber stamps and hand colored) sit on hand-painted grass next to two clumps of bamboo and a rock all of which was hand-painted and colored with enamels; the back is inscribed. Gilded rim and gold bowstring around foot. Inscription: On back the meaning of brush written inscription with one simplified character is unclear (叶象三多 ye xiang san duo). Round red kiln mark on foot: “Establishing the Nation Ceramic Factory product 9 Jiangxi” (建國瓷廠 江西出品9 Jianguo cichang, Jiangxi chupin 9). Seal legend has full-form characters (so presumably pre-1956 introduction of simplified characters), but cutting of characters is not as precise as 1950s.
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Liangmahe Collectibles Market, Beijing, China
Production place:
Jiangxi province, Southern China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
February 15, 2003
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
after 1980
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 10.1 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Rice bowl, accession number 9-23557, described as Small glazed porcelain rice bowl. Likely a post 1980 revival of the Establishing the Nation kiln name. The Jianguo (Establishing Nation) kiln had made porcelain dinner sets for the new PRC government in the early 1950s. On the front two men (perhaps done with rubber stamps and hand colored) sit on hand-painted grass next to two clumps of bamboo and a rock all of which was hand-painted and colored with enamels; the back is inscribed. Gilded rim and gold bowstring around foot. Inscription: On back the meaning of brush written inscription with one simplified character is unclear (叶象三多 ye xiang san duo). Round red kiln mark on foot: “Establishing the Nation Ceramic Factory product 9 Jiangxi” (建國瓷廠 江西出品9 Jianguo cichang, Jiangxi chupin 9). Seal legend has full-form characters (so presumably pre-1956 introduction of simplified characters), but cutting of characters is not as precise as 1950s.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Rice bowl, accession number 9-23557, described as Small glazed porcelain rice bowl. Likely a post 1980 revival of the Establishing the Nation kiln name. The Jianguo (Establishing Nation) kiln had made porcelain dinner sets for the new PRC government in the early 1950s. On the front two men (perhaps done with rubber stamps and hand colored) sit on hand-painted grass next to two clumps of bamboo and a rock all of which was hand-painted and colored with enamels; the back is inscribed. Gilded rim and gold bowstring around foot. Inscription: On back the meaning of brush written inscription with one simplified character is unclear (叶象三多 ye xiang san duo). Round red kiln mark on foot: “Establishing the Nation Ceramic Factory product 9 Jiangxi” (建國瓷廠 江西出品9 Jianguo cichang, Jiangxi chupin 9). Seal legend has full-form characters (so presumably pre-1956 introduction of simplified characters), but cutting of characters is not as precise as 1950s.

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