Bowl

Museum number:
9-23622
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090023622
Alternate number:
CB90 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4796
Description:
A decal shows a girl with the Little Red Book raised in her right hand and a hoe in her left. She stands by a wheat field. A rising sun on the left. Sent-down Youth movement. Inscribed on back. Inscription: Seemingly handwritten on reverse: “The countryside is a vast world where much can be accomplished” (农村是一个广阔的天地 nongcun shi yige guangkuo de tiandi). Kiln mark: “Zi River porcelain factory, Hunan 1970” (湖南資江瓷厂1970 Hunan Zijiang cichang 1970). An illegible character embossed in bowl.
Donor:
Alfreda Murck
Collection place:
Panjiayuan Market, Beijing, China
Verbatim coll. place:
Panjiayuan Market, Beijing
Production place:
Yiyang, Hunan Province, Southern China
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Collector:
Alfreda Murck
Collection date:
2003-2010
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Porcelain (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Production date:
1970
Accession date:
February 19, 2016
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
diameter 15.9 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-23622, described as A decal shows a girl with the Little Red Book raised in her right hand and a hoe in her left. She stands by a wheat field. A rising sun on the left. Sent-down Youth movement. Inscribed on back. Inscription: Seemingly handwritten on reverse: “The countryside is a vast world where much can be accomplished” (农村是一个广阔的天地 nongcun shi yige guangkuo de tiandi). Kiln mark: “Zi River porcelain factory, Hunan 1970” (湖南資江瓷厂1970 Hunan Zijiang cichang 1970). An illegible character embossed in bowl.

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