bowl

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Object Type: bowl
Museum number: PDF.3
Description: Ru stoneware bowl with rounded sides, everted rim and splayed foot. The bowl has a copper-bound mouthrim, thick, opaque lavender-blue celadon glaze with fine crackle, and five spur marks on the base. There is an inscription in the centre of the interior.
Cultures/periods: Northern Song dynasty
Production date: 1086-1125
Production place: Made in: Qingliangsi
Materials: stoneware; copper
Ware: Ru Ware
Technique: glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 7.50 centimetres (base); Diameter: 16.90 centimetres; Height: 7.10 centimetres; Weight: 0.35 kilograms
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Northern Song early 12thC; Room 95 label text: PDF 3 Ru bowl with Qianlong inscription The inscription translated in 1934 by R.L. Hobson reads: 均 [鈞] 窑都出脩[修]内司至今盤多椀 [碗] 艱致内府藏盤數近百椀[碗]則晨星見一二何物不可窮其理椀 [碗] 大難藏盤小易於斯亦當知懼哉愈大愈難守其器乾隆丙午御題 'Jun wares were all produced at the Xiuneisi (Palace Maintenance Office). Many dishes have survived but bowls are difficult to find. In the palace alone are stored well-nigh a hundred dishes. Yet bowls are as rare as stars in the morning. What is there, forsooth, for which a cause cannot be found? Large bowls are difficult to preserve, small dishes easy. In this I find a moral and a warning. The greater the object, the heavier the task of its care. Composed by the Qianlong emperor in the cyclical year bingwu [AD 1786]. The two seals at the end of the stanza read 比德 (bide ‘measure of virtue’ or more literally 'compared to virtue') and 郎潤 (langrun ‘clear and unctuous’). Stoneware with celadon glaze and copper rim Ru ware汝窯 Qingliangsi, Baofeng county, Henan province河南省, 寳豐縣, 清凉寺 Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1086–1125; A similar Ru bowl is in the Palace Museum, Beijing with a Qianlong inscription on the base dated 1777.; PDF 3 刻乾隆御題詩汝窯碗 1934年，R.L.霍布森將此碗的刻銘進行了釋讀和翻譯：“均窯都出脩內司，至今盤多椀艱致。內府藏盤數近百，椀則晨星見一二。何物不可窮其理，椀大難藏盤小易。於斯亦當知懼哉，愈大愈難守其器。乾隆丙午御題。”意為：鈞窯器皆生產于修內司，盤存世較多，碗則非常罕見。宮廷內保存有近百件盤，但碗的數量則寥若晨星。是何原因至此現象？碗大難保存不壞，盤子小則容易。由此我明白一個道理，越大的事物，守護它的責任便越重。乾隆皇帝作于丙午年（1786年）。詩尾附“比德”（意為衡量德行，或直譯為與美德相比）、“朗潤”（意為清朗潤澤）印兩方。炻器，天青釉，鑲銅口汝窑河南省寶豐縣清涼寺北宋，约1086-1125年
Bibliographic references: Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.16, no.3, front cover); Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 1-2, no.3, pl.I); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 34-35, no.11); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.37, no.11 (and inscription)); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.46, no.29); Oriental Ceramic Society 1971 / Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China (p.81, no.86); Pierson & Barnes 2002 / A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor (p.10, no.1 (and inside)); Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A. (p. 3, pl. II); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Colour pl. 14 and p. 306)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited:
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.3
Conservation: Treatment: 28 Jan 2009

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