Porcelain Rice Bowl
date: label: date made
content: 1875 - 1899
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Porcelain rice bowl with a high foot rim and straight flaring sides. There is gray-blue decoration outside and inside with a gray-toned glaze.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Such rice bowls were used by Chinese people who settled in San Francisco or the mining towns after the gold rush and who worked on the railroads. This bowl was collected near Grass Valley, California.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
label: collected
content: United States: California, Grass Valley
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Chinese Americans
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Food
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.64.532
label: accession number
content: 251849
label: catalog number
content: 64.532
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 6.6675 cm x 13.97 cm