Rice bowl

Museum number:
9-23568
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
CB14 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
Rice bowl. The exterior is decorated with six square identical blue stamps showing active factories overlaid with the inscription “Everywhere in the Motherland” (在祖国各地 zai zuguo gedi) recalling Mao Zedong’s hope to see smoke stacks on every horizon. Double blue bowstring around rim and a blue line around stomach.
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
Beijing, Beijing municipality, Northern China
Verbatim coll. place:
Curio City (Guwancheng), Beijing, China
Production place:
China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
September 17, 2003
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
1950s or early 1960s
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 11.7 centimeters
Comment:
Inscription: no seal.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Rice bowl, accession number 9-23568, described as Rice bowl. The exterior is decorated with six square identical blue stamps showing active factories overlaid with the inscription “Everywhere in the Motherland” (在祖国各地 zai zuguo gedi) recalling Mao Zedong’s hope to see smoke stacks on every horizon. Double blue bowstring around rim and a blue line around stomach.

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