White Glaze Bowl with Floral Petal-shaped Mouth Rim, Ding Kiln

With wide mouth, deep, bow-shaped belly, and ring foot, the bowl resembles a six petaled flower. There are substantial abrasions to the white glaze which covers the entire body.
Six tags are attached to the inside of the bowl, including, in counter clockwise order:
Tag no. 1: No. 360 (written in Suzhou numerical system), [checked] (vermillion seal), [the character “Yan“] (probably added in a later time)
Tag no. 2: [the character “Re“] (referring to Rehe [Jehol], today’s Chengde, Hebei province, the location of the Mountain Villa for Escaping the Heat [Bishu shanzhuang]) no. 29303
Tag no. 3: Inventoried by the Palace Museum, suo165 [the character “Gu“] (referring to the Galleries of Antiquities [Guwu chenlie suo])
Tag no. 4: New accession number for objects left in Beiping (today’s Beijing) no. 11439
Tag no. 5: Rechecked in the twenty-seventh year of the Republican period (1938) no. 38, and categorized in miscellaneous glazes
Tag no. 6: Object name, concave round bowl of the Song-dynasty Ding kiln (Song dingyao naowan), authenticated.
Many objects in the Palace Museum collection bear a variety of tags attached in successive periods. These seemingly unexceptional tags witnessed the objects’ passing through many hands. This white glaze bowl is a case in point. It was originally kept at the imperial resort at Rehe, and then appropriated, together with other pieces, to the newly-established Galleries of Antiquities in 1914 (tag no. 1, 2). In 1931, when the Japanese forces invaded the Northeast, and advanced towards North China, part of the collections of the Galleries and the Palace Museum were evacuated to the South. Those left in Beijing were reinventoried and assigned new accession numbers (tag no. 4), then they were rechecked against the inventory in 1938 (tag no. 5). In 1948, the Galleries of Antiquities were merged into the Palace Museum, thus this bowl formally became part of the Palace Museum collection (tag no. 3) and was stored in the warehouse at the Palace of Prolonging Happiness (Yanxi gong) (tag no. 1). In 1962, it was assigned a new accession number “gu143091” (tag attached to the bottom), of which the “gu” title indicates that the object entered the Museum’s collection before 1949.