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bowl

• Object type

  • bowl

• Museum number

  PDF.18

• Description

  Guan-type stoneware bowl with rounded sides and six-lobed mouthrim, standing on a low foot. The bowl has thick greenish-grey glaze with a fine, brown crackle. There are inscriptions on the interior and on the base.

• Culture/period

  • Qing dynasty

• Date

  • 1662-1777

• Production place

  • Made in: Zhejiang (province)
  • (Asia,China,Zhejiang (province))

• Materials

  • stoneware

• Ware

  • Guan-type Ware

• Technique

  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 73 millimetres
  • Diameter: 186 millimetres
  • Diameter: 60 millimetres (base)

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Type

      inscription

    • Inscription Position

      On base

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      甲

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Jia

    • Inscription Translation

      First class/class A

  • • Inscription Type

      seal

    • Inscription Position

      inside

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      古香

    • Inscription Transliteration

      guxiang

    • Inscription Translation

      ancient fragrance

  • • Inscription Type

      inscription

    • Inscription Position

      inside

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      越器非出越
      處州生一陶
      已曾標甲第
      可以贈詞曹
      蘇子分猶憶
      盧家興過豪
      傾陽如有喻
      饑渴念民勞
      乾隆戊戌仲夏御題

    • Inscription Transliteration

      Yue qi feichu Yue
      Chuzhou Shengyi tao
      Yiceng biao jiadi
      Keiyi zeng ci Cao
      Suzi fen you yi
      Lujia xing guo hao
      Qing yang ru you yu
      Jike nian minlao
      Qianlong wuxu zhongxia yuti

    • Inscription Translation

      Yue ware is not from Yue. It was made by Shengyi of Chuzhou, and is regarded as being of the highest quality. Worthy of being presented to a Hanlin scholar. It brings to mind Scholar Su’s poem, and Master Lu’s joyful appreciation. Its delicate sunflower from symbolises the relationship between the Emperor and his subjects. I must always devote myself to the concerns of my people.
      Composed by the Qianlong Emperor in the mid-summer month of the wuxu year [AD 1778].

    • Inscription Comment

      Hobson 1934 This appears in the Collected Works of the Qianlong Emperor and is titled ‘On the Sunflower bowl (gui hua wan) of Ge ware’ vol. 65 of section IV under the cyclical year 1780.

  • • Inscription Type

      seal

    • Inscription Position

      inside

    • Inscription Language

      Chinese

    • Inscription Content

      太璞

    • Inscription Transliteration

      taipu

    • Inscription Translation

      supreme simplicity

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Southern Song 12th-13thCRoom 95 label text:

  PDF 18

  Lobed bowl with guan-type glaze and inscription

  
  In the centre of the base is a red-stained character 甲pronounced jia indicating that this piece was regarded as the finest quality. With this is an incised poem dated AD 1778 which reads: 越器非出越, 處州生一陶, 已曾標甲第, 可以贈詞曹, 蘇子分猶憶, 盧家興過豪, 傾陽如有喻, 饑渴念民勞, 乾隆戊戌仲夏御題 Yue qi feichuYue, Chuzhou Shengyi tao, yiceng biao jiadi, keiyi zeng ci Cao, Suzi fen you yi, Lujia xing guo hao, qing yang ru you yu, jike nian minlao Qianlong wuxu zhongxia yuti. It may be translated as: Yue ware is not from Yue. It was made by Shengyi of Chuzhou, and is regarded as being of the highest quality. Worthy of being presented to a Hanlin scholar. It brings to mind Scholar Su’s poem, and Master Lu’s joyful appreciation. Its delicate sunflower form symbolises the relationship between the Emperor and his subjects. I must always devote myself to the concerns of my people. Composed by the Qianlong Emperor in the mid-summer month of the wuxu year [AD 1778]. Two seals at the end of the inscription read:古香 (guxiang 'ancient fragrance') and 太璞 (taipu 'supreme simplicity').
  

  Stoneware with celadon glaze
  Guan–type ware
  Zhejiang province 浙江省, 杭州市
  Qing dynasty, about AD 1662–1777

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• Bibliography

  • Hobson 1934 p. 26, pl. XXV
  • Pierson & Barnes 2002 p.21, no.12 (inside and base)
  • Pierson 1999 p.26, no.18
  • Yorke Hardy 1953 p.7, no.18

• Location

  On display: G95/dc7/sh1

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art

• Acquisition notes

  R. L. Hobson, 1934 records: 'From the Imperial Collection, Peking.'

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.18