Bowl

Museum number:
9-23618
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090023618
Alternate number:
CB84 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16 cm Date: 1969 Country: People’s Republic of China Description: Two alternating patterns each appear three times on the body. One portrays a tractor in the middle of a field with light radiating from the horizon. It is framed by wheat garlands on two sides and characters on the top reading “People’s Communes are good” (人民公社好renmin gongshe hao). The other decal pattern portrays green pine branches encircled by a double green ring. Black characters across the branches proclaim: “Happiness for ten-thousand springs” (幸福万年春xingfu wan nian chun). Inscription: Kiln mark: “New Citizen porcelain factory, Liling 1969” (醴陵 新民瓷厂 Liling Xinmin cichang, 1969); the interior has a character (柱zhu). Place of Origin: Liling, Hunan Province Condition: Good. Signs of wear. Acquisition Data: Beijing, 2002-2003
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
Beijing, Beijing municipality, China
Production place:
Liling, Hunan province, Southern China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
2002-2003
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
1969
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-23618, described as Materials: Glazed porcelain Diameter at rim: 16 cm Date: 1969 Country: People’s Republic of China Description: Two alternating patterns each appear three times on the body. One portrays a tractor in the middle of a field with light radiating from the horizon. It is framed by wheat garlands on two sides and characters on the top reading “People’s Communes are good” (人民公社好renmin gongshe hao). The other decal pattern portrays green pine branches encircled by a double green ring. Black characters across the branches proclaim: “Happiness for ten-thousand springs” (幸福万年春xingfu wan nian chun). Inscription: Kiln mark: “New Citizen porcelain factory, Liling 1969” (醴陵 新民瓷厂 Liling Xinmin cichang, 1969); the interior has a character (柱zhu). Place of Origin: Liling, Hunan Province Condition: Good. Signs of wear. Acquisition Data: Beijing, 2002-2003

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