Noodle bowl

Museum number:
9-23590
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090023590
Alternate number:
CB46 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
Object Name: Noodle bowl Materials: Glazed Porcelain Diameter at rim: 14 cm Date: 1890 or early Republican era copy Country: China Description: The exterior features a hand-painted version of “antiquities” (博古bogu), a theme that was popular in the late Qing. The reverse has a long inscription in shaky calligraphy, dated the summer of the gengyin 庚寅year (presumably 1890), signed “Painted from life by Lu Heng of Tingxuan Hall” (possible literal translation could be “the hall chosen by the court”) (廷選軒呂衡 Tingxuan xuan Lü heng) followed by a red oval mark. Worn gilding on rim. Inscription: On foot, blue circular kiln mark, hand written: “Made at Hall of Cautious Virtue” (慎德堂製 Shendetang zhi). Place of Origin: China Condition: Wear, chips on the rim Acquisition Data: Beijing or Tianjin, 2001-2005
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Beijing or Tianjin
Production place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
2001-2005
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
1890 or early Republican era copy
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Noodle bowl, accession number 9-23590, described as Object Name: Noodle bowl Materials: Glazed Porcelain Diameter at rim: 14 cm Date: 1890 or early Republican era copy Country: China Description: The exterior features a hand-painted version of “antiquities” (博古bogu), a theme that was popular in the late Qing. The reverse has a long inscription in shaky calligraphy, dated the summer of the gengyin 庚寅year (presumably 1890), signed “Painted from life by Lu Heng of Tingxuan Hall” (possible literal translation could be “the hall chosen by the court”) (廷選軒呂衡 Tingxuan xuan Lü heng) followed by a red oval mark. Worn gilding on rim. Inscription: On foot, blue circular kiln mark, hand written: “Made at Hall of Cautious Virtue” (慎德堂製 Shendetang zhi). Place of Origin: China Condition: Wear, chips on the rim Acquisition Data: Beijing or Tianjin, 2001-2005Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Noodle bowl, accession number 9-23590, described as Object Name: Noodle bowl Materials: Glazed Porcelain Diameter at rim: 14 cm Date: 1890 or early Republican era copy Country: China Description: The exterior features a hand-painted version of “antiquities” (博古bogu), a theme that was popular in the late Qing. The reverse has a long inscription in shaky calligraphy, dated the summer of the gengyin 庚寅year (presumably 1890), signed “Painted from life by Lu Heng of Tingxuan Hall” (possible literal translation could be “the hall chosen by the court”) (廷選軒呂衡 Tingxuan xuan Lü heng) followed by a red oval mark. Worn gilding on rim. Inscription: On foot, blue circular kiln mark, hand written: “Made at Hall of Cautious Virtue” (慎德堂製 Shendetang zhi). Place of Origin: China Condition: Wear, chips on the rim Acquisition Data: Beijing or Tianjin, 2001-2005

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