Bowl

Museum number:
9-12691
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3184 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.05
Description:
China. Bowl, porcelain. Lobed lotus-leaf shape with enamel and gilt decor on light grayish celadon. Deep, curved sides, short spiralled foot-ring to resemble stem. Prominent lobes in sides form wavy pattern at rim. Six sprigs of assorted flowers on interior and exterior wall and one on center bottom in green, blue, pink, purple, and white overglaze enamels some drawn with assorted insects. Incised and guilded 'veins' radiate from center, interior and exterior. Gold guilt along rim. Flowers carefully executed. Height 7.5 centimeters, max diameter 18.6 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:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12691, described as China. Bowl, porcelain. Lobed lotus-leaf shape with enamel and gilt decor on light grayish celadon. Deep, curved sides, short spiralled foot-ring to resemble stem. Prominent lobes in sides form wavy pattern at rim. Six sprigs of assorted flowers on interior and exterior wall and one on center bottom in green, blue, pink, purple, and white overglaze enamels some drawn with assorted insects. Incised and guilded 'veins' radiate from center, interior and exterior. Gold guilt along rim. Flowers carefully executed. Height 7.5 centimeters, max diameter 18.6 centimeters.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Bowl, accession number 9-12691, described as China. Bowl, porcelain. Lobed lotus-leaf shape with enamel and gilt decor on light grayish celadon. Deep, curved sides, short spiralled foot-ring to resemble stem. Prominent lobes in sides form wavy pattern at rim. Six sprigs of assorted flowers on interior and exterior wall and one on center bottom in green, blue, pink, purple, and white overglaze enamels some drawn with assorted insects. Incised and guilded 'veins' radiate from center, interior and exterior. Gold guilt along rim. Flowers carefully executed. Height 7.5 centimeters, max diameter 18.6 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12691, described as China. Bowl, porcelain. Lobed lotus-leaf shape with enamel and gilt decor on light grayish celadon. Deep, curved sides, short spiralled foot-ring to resemble stem. Prominent lobes in sides form wavy pattern at rim. Six sprigs of assorted flowers on interior and exterior wall and one on center bottom in green, blue, pink, purple, and white overglaze enamels some drawn with assorted insects. Incised and guilded 'veins' radiate from center, interior and exterior. Gold guilt along rim. Flowers carefully executed. Height 7.5 centimeters, max diameter 18.6 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12691, described as China. Bowl, porcelain. Lobed lotus-leaf shape with enamel and gilt decor on light grayish celadon. Deep, curved sides, short spiralled foot-ring to resemble stem. Prominent lobes in sides form wavy pattern at rim. Six sprigs of assorted flowers on interior and exterior wall and one on center bottom in green, blue, pink, purple, and white overglaze enamels some drawn with assorted insects. Incised and guilded 'veins' radiate from center, interior and exterior. Gold guilt along rim. Flowers carefully executed. Height 7.5 centimeters, max diameter 18.6 centimeters.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-12691, described as China. Bowl, porcelain. Lobed lotus-leaf shape with enamel and gilt decor on light grayish celadon. Deep, curved sides, short spiralled foot-ring to resemble stem. Prominent lobes in sides form wavy pattern at rim. Six sprigs of assorted flowers on interior and exterior wall and one on center bottom in green, blue, pink, purple, and white overglaze enamels some drawn with assorted insects. Incised and guilded 'veins' radiate from center, interior and exterior. Gold guilt along rim. Flowers carefully executed. Height 7.5 centimeters, max diameter 18.6 centimeters.

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